A busy market crowds the street to the left, with stalls, carts and pedestrians filling the roadway, and the Town Hall's tall clock tower rises at right with the same silhouette seen in the Fotér views of the same building. A handwritten message dated 21 October 1914 covers most of the sky, signed off with a kiss before the signature. The heading confirms the street as Kossuth Lajos utca.
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
Újvidék Kossuth Lajos utca és Városháza
- Date
- by October 1914
- Coordinates
- 45.25417, 19.84420
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2344 × 1506 px
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