The shopfront behind carries a trading name in Latin script that would read the same in any of the town's languages, with a Serbian name in Cyrillic above it cut off by the edge, so the shop signed itself twice over. A young man in shirtsleeves and braces is posed against the front wing of a black saloon, its plate carrying a registration with the year stamped small above it.
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
B 317 / Universal
- Date
- 1933
- Coordinates
- 45.25417, 19.84420
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1252 × 974 px
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