The form is printed in Serbian Cyrillic and Hungarian, both naming the same Štrand bathing joint-stock company, so the company was still setting Hungarian text five years after the Kingdom took the city over. The cabin number 394 is entered twice, once against each language, the ticket is numbered 3853, and the sums written in are 200 dinars, 30 for the key, and 225 dinars. A violet rubber stamp of the company is struck across it, and the holder's photograph, a young woman in a wide soft hat, is printed alongside the entries.
About this place
Štrand is the city beach of Novi Sad, on the Danube near the Freedom Bridge, and its name comes straight from the German word Strand. It opened officially in 1911 on a sandbar called Poloj that had served to water livestock and then held Stengl's bathing place, with separate sections for men and women; an organised lifeguard and swimming instruction service followed in 1912. The beach runs 700 metres and covers about 14 hectares, half sand and half green, with more than 830 cabins and over 400 trees, and it draws more than a million visitors between May and September. During the raid of January 1942, Hungarian forces brought arrested Serbs and Jews to the entrance of Štrand and killed them at the water's edge, pushing the bodies under the Danube ice.
On the card
ШТРАНД КУПАТИЛО Д. Д. / STRAND FÜRDŐ R. T. / 3853 / БРОЈ КАБИНЕ 394 / KABINSZÁM 394 / Din. 200 / Ključ 30 / Din. 225 / ШТРАНД АКЦИОНАРСКО ДРУШТВО
- Date
- 1923
- Coordinates
- 45.23631, 19.84654
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1312 × 931 px
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