The shopfront is signed three times over for the same photographer, once in Hungarian, once in German beneath it, and once again in Serbian Cyrillic on the board next door, a fair record of how the street's trade lettered itself. The card's own caption is Hungarian only, in the older cz spelling, so the publisher used one language where the shop used three. An electric tram with a bow collector stands in the crowd, which puts the picture between 1911 and 1918.
About this place
Dunavska street runs from Zmaj Jovina down to the Belgrade Quay on the Danube, and took shape in the first years of the 18th century as the road between the town centre and the river landing. Early city maps call it Auf den Brücken, the street on the bridges, because timber bridges carried it over the marshy ground on either side, and it was also known as Petrovaradinska after the crossing to Petrovaradin. From the late 18th century the name settled into Dunavska, with Duna utca in Hungarian and Donau-Gasse in German saying the same thing. The houses at numbers 1, 6, 7, 18 and 20 are protected monuments, and the street today carries the Museum of Vojvodina, the Historical Museum, the Officers' House and the entrance to the Danube Park.
On the card
SINGER J. UDVARI FÉNYKÉPÉSZ / HOF FOTOGRAF JOSEF SINGER / Ujvidék, Duna utcza
- Date
- 1911–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25632, 19.85078
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 640 × 407 px
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