'Sphinx benizin' petrol station 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.4002 Borba fotodokumentacija, Belgrade Vreme Borba.benzinska pumpa Photoarchive Borba Public Structures Structures Buying and Selling Exchange Advertising Marketing Photographic plate 1920-1940 Svetozar Grdijan Grdijan, Svetozar View of a street corner featuring a petrol station. It is very small and consists of a circular signboard on a pole, a fuel dispenser with a long suspended fuel hose, and two large 'Mobiloil' canisters arranged side to side with two smaller fuel cans placed on top, partly hiding a bucket. The station is situated next to a run-down building with a large, faded bilingual inscription on its side wall. Behind is an empty field with a few two-wheeled carts lined up side to side. Two cars are parked on the roadside next to the station. A man is loading something into the first. A wheel is lying on the pavement next to it, and a man with a beard dressed in a coat and cap and with a cigarette in his mouth is passing between the car and the station. In the lower left foreground, a day labourer in opanci, carrying a saw and a timber jack on his shoulder, is passing by, while a woman is walking swiftly out of the frame. The house with the inscription seems to be empty. The inscription reads 'Frizer za dame - Coiffeur pour Dames- Ivić' (Ladies’ hairdresser Ivić). Not specified Not specified 90 130 Serbia Yugoslavia Belgrade
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