Sleigh ride on the frozen Danube SIBA – A Visual Approach to Explore Everyday Life in Turkish and Yugoslav Cities, 1920s and 1930s Milanka Matić editor Nataša Mišković editor Middle Eastern Studies, University of Basel Centre for Information Modelling in the Humanities, University Graz o:siba.4065 Borba fotodokumentacija, Belgrade Vreme Borba0129 Photoarchive Borba Animal Transportation Land Transport Leisure Time Activities Living Standards and Routines Climate Geography Rest Days and Holidays Recreation Spectacles Commercialized Entertainment Transportation Travel and Transportation Photographic plate 1929 Svetozar Grdijan Grdijan, Svetozar Rear view of a sleigh carrying passengers and pulled by two horses. The sleigh is standing in a snowy field. It is not built for passenger transport. The six passengers and the driver are sitting rather uncomfortably on the side panels, yet they are smiling as if enjoying the experience. The passengers – a lady, two gentlemen, an officer and a boy – are elegantly dressed in contrast to the driver and his aide squatting next to the sleigh, who are wearing village garb combined with a fur cap (šubara). Behind the sleigh, a soldier is smiling into the camera. The photograph appeared in the newspaper Vreme on 11 February 1929 as part of a report on the cold snap in Europe. The Danube River froze over with air temperatures at minus 23 degrees and below. The thick layer of ice was an opportunity for some middle-class urbanites to take a ride from Belgrade to Pančevo. Peasant men offered sleigh rides in the winter. Not specified Not specified 90 130 Serbia Yugoslavia Belgrade Dunav Juče je u Beogradu bilo 23 i po stepena ispod nule. Vreme 2566, 11 February 1929, 5.
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