One of the Mondschein or moonlight cards, printed in blue with the moon painted in; the publisher's plate number 6029 sits at the lower corner and the imprint of Ig. Urban of Neusatz runs vertically down the edge. The message is written in Serbian in Latin letters down the whole right margin and along the foot, opening Drago and signed by two women, the first of the names reading Mariška. The building is an eclectic corner palace with a bulbous cupola on a drum over the canted corner, its ground floor rusticated and arcaded and the panels between its upper windows worked all over in diaper patterning.
About this place
The tax and customs house was the office where the state collected its money in Novi Sad under Hungarian rule. The two postcards of it in this archive show a two storey corner palace in the eclectic manner, its ground floor rusticated and arcaded, a turret with a bulbous cupola set over the corner, and young trees along the pavement. Both cards name it twice over, Adóhivatal és vámház in Hungarian and Steueramt und Zollamt in German, and one of them names the town three ways at once, Ujvidék, Нови Сад and Neusatz, which is how the place presented itself to visitors before 1918. Neither card gives a date of building or an architect, and nothing further about the house has been traced.
On the card
Adó- és vám hivatal. / Steuer- & Zollamt Neusatz. / Ujvidék. / Verlag: Ig. Urban, Neusatz. / 6029 / Drago […]
- Date
- 1900
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 1280 × 836 px