The lettering is Serbian Latin alone with no other language, and it announces a jubilee international agricultural fair, the roman numerals above giving the thirtieth, with the week of May dates set under it. The fair's device sits over the numerals, a winged S and N cut white out of a red disc. A small black roundel emblem is stamped at the lower corner but its lettering is too fine to read.
About this place
The Novi Sad Fair is the city's exhibition ground and the company that runs it, occupying a large walled site on Hajduk Veljkova Street in the western district of Sajmište. It grew out of the markets and craft shows held at Futog and Novi Sad in the nineteenth century, and the first agricultural exhibition was staged in August 1923; the event was opened to foreign exhibitors from 1930. Exhibitions were first held on an older fairground in Šumadijska Street in the inner city, and moved in 1940 to the present site, which gave the surrounding district its name, Sajmište meaning fairground. The fair joined the international federation of trade fairs in 1958, and its May agricultural show remains one of the largest in southeastern Europe.
On the card
XXX / JUBILARNI MEĐUNARODNI POLJOPRIVREDNI SAJAM U NOVOM SADU / 12.-19. V.
- Date
- 1963
- Coordinates
- 45.25461, 19.82068
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 1172 × 1174 px
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