A purple NOVISAD stamp is overprinted across the top of the older Hungarian heading, UJVIDÉK Kossuth-Lajos-utca, Kossuth-Lajos-Gasse, physical evidence of pre-1918 postcard stock being reused and relabelled after the city passed from Hungary to the new Yugoslav state. The same two towers and the Bútorház furniture sign on the corner building recur from this street's other views, with a tram approaching and a pram at the roadside.
About this place
The street running off Liberty Square, named for King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and carrying the name still. The archive's cards look along it toward the spire of the Name of Mary Church, with the tram in the roadway and shop awnings down the left side. Under the occupation of 1941 to 1944 the street carried Adolf Hitler’s name, and the archive’s wartime photograph of it is filed here under that period. Under socialist Yugoslavia the street carried the name Ulica narodnih heroja, which a separate street about 120 m south-west carries today, so a caption using that name has to be dated before it is placed. The pin is the OpenStreetMap line of the street itself.
On the card
Újvidék Kossuth Lajos utca
- Date
- by March 1922
- Coordinates
- 45.25417, 19.84420
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2368 × 1542 px
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