A four wheel electric tramcar stands on the rails in the roadway, its number 52 painted large on the dash and again on the side panel, a coiled rope hung beneath the headlamp and the bow collector reaching up to the wire. Behind it rises a richly modelled facade: a heavy balcony carried on massive consoles, arched openings along the ground floor and ornament worked across the upper storeys. Two women in long dark coats and headscarves walk the pavement beside it, a poster column and a cast iron lamp standard stand at the left, and the rails curve away across the cobbles in the foreground. The building is the Dunđerski Palace on Kralja Aleksandra Street.
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.
- Date
- 1928–1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25417, 19.84420
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1024 × 679 px
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