A crowd of men in coats and hats gathers on the pavement outside the bank, whose fascia carries the name ПРИВРЕДНА БАНКА ВОЈВОДИНЕ in Cyrillic capitals above a row of arched windows fitted with ornamental metal security grilles. Two young women in below-knee skirts and low heels walk past in the foreground, seemingly unconnected to the crowd at the entrance, and the grilles are shut across most of the windows. The premises are those of the former Trgovačka i obrtna banka at Kralja Aleksandra 17, documented before the Second World War as standing beside the Armenian Church. Privredna banka Vojvodine took over its premises and capital after the war, and in 1955 was succeeded by Komunalna banka, whose name later attached to the same building. Why the crowd is there is not established by the photograph or by any source found.
About this place
The street running off Liberty Square, named for King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and carrying the name still. The archive's cards look along it toward the spire of the Name of Mary Church, with the tram in the roadway and shop awnings down the left side. Under the occupation of 1941 to 1944 the street carried Adolf Hitler’s name, and the archive’s wartime photograph of it is filed here under that period. Under socialist Yugoslavia the street carried the name Ulica narodnih heroja, which a separate street about 120 m south-west carries today, so a caption using that name has to be dated before it is placed. The pin is the OpenStreetMap line of the street itself.
On the card
ПРИВРЕДНА БАНКА ВОЈВОДИНЕ
Economic Bank of Vojvodina
- Date
- 28 December 1944–18 November 1955
- Coordinates
- 45.25417, 19.84420
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 960 × 533 px
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