A two-funnelled paddle steamer lettered SOPHIE runs in the foreground under a flag at her bow mast, her upper deck awninged. Beyond her the village climbs the bank in red-tiled roofs, a slender spire at one end and a bulbous-domed tower at the other, and the long white two-storey range of the cadet school stands clear on the ridge above the houses. The card is a chromolithograph worked up in greens and reds. Its caption is German but for the Hungarian word for a greeting, Üdvözlêt, and it does two things at once, naming the imperial and royal infantry cadet school and advertising the village below it as an air-cure resort, so one card sold a garrison and a health spa together. It was published by the court photographer J. Singer, who worked in the town across the river rather than in the village itself.
Published by Josef Singer
About this place
A settlement on the Fruska Gora side of the Danube, upstream of Petrovaradin and now part of Novi Sad. Cards sell it as Luftkurort Kamenitz, an air resort, and it was reached from the town by steamer. The imperial and royal infantry cadet school stood here, and the Serbian Orthodox church appears on cards captioned Kamenica in Serbian, Kamanc in Hungarian and Kamenitz in German.
On the card
K. & K. Infanterie-Cadettenschule / Luftkurort Kamenitz. Üdvözlêt. / SOPHIE / Verlag von J. Singer, Hoffotograf, Ujvidék
Imperial and Royal Infantry Cadet School / Kamenitz air-cure resort. Greetings. / SOPHIE / Published by J. Singer, court photographer, Ujvidék
- Date
- 1900–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.22320, 19.84341
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1574 × 992 px
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