The Slovenec Newspaper Collection

Curator: Katarina Jurjavčič


The Slovenec Newspaper Collection dates to the first half of the 20th century. The Slovenec newspaper was published from 1873 to 1945. From the end of 1924 to the summer of 1932, Ilustirani Slovenec (Slovenec Illustrated) was published as the newspaper’s weekly enclosure. Many photographs now part of the museum archives were published in it.


The Slovenec Newspaper Collection is organised with regard to genre: portrait, landscape, architectural, reportage, documentary, genre, and sports photography. To the most widely represented themes in the collection belong photographs representing individuals, everyday social, ethnic, political, cultural, social, and economic life of Slovenes in the Habsburg Monarchy and the Kingdom of SHS/Yugoslavia.


Photographs in the Slovenec Newspaper Collection illustrate many aspects of life in the interim period, including the expressions of joy, happiness, anxiety, sadness, and all those things that made up people’s life in that period. That is why the Slovenec Newspaper Collection is undoubtedly an exceptional piece of historical and cultural heritage.

Unknown author, France Kralj sculpting Rodovitnost (Fertility), Ljubljana, early 1930s. Black-and-white photograph, 13.8 × 9 cm, inv. no.: SL12578.
Unknown author, France Kralj sculpting Rodovitnost (Fertility), Ljubljana, early 1930s. Black-and-white photograph, 13.8 × 9 cm, inv. no.: SL12578.
Unknown author, In front of the editorial office of the Slovenec newspaper on Kopitarjeva ulica, Ljubljana, 1930-1940. Black-and-white photograph, 14.6 × 9.7 cm, inv. no.: SL1854.
Unknown author, In front of the editorial office of the Slovenec newspaper on Kopitarjeva ulica, Ljubljana, 1930-1940. Black-and-white photograph, 14.6 × 9.7 cm, inv. no.: SL1854.
Unknown author, The former hotel Pri Maliču, Ljubljana, in the 1920s and 1930s. Black-and white-photograph, 11.5 × 17.2 cm, inv. no.: SL1858.
Unknown author, The former hotel Pri Maliču, Ljubljana, in the 1920s and 1930s. Black-and white-photograph, 11.5 × 17.2 cm, inv. no.: SL1858.
Unknown author, A crowd gathers for the 2nd Eucharistic Congress at the Bežigrad stadium in Ljubljana, 28–30 June 1935. Black-and-white photograph, 8 × 13 cm, inv. no.: SL6531.
Unknown author, A crowd gathers for the 2nd Eucharistic Congress at the Bežigrad stadium in Ljubljana, 28–30 June 1935. Black-and-white photograph, 8 × 13 cm, inv. no.: SL6531.
Unknown author, On holidays, Island of Rab. Black-and-white photograph, 8.7 × 13.5 cm, inv. no.: SL9812.
Unknown author, On holidays, Island of Rab. Black-and-white photograph, 8.7 × 13.5 cm, inv. no.: SL9812.
Unknown author, The royal family: Queen Maria Karađorđević with her sons Peter II, Tomislav and Andrej. Black-and-white photograph, 12.9 × 17.8 cm, inv. no.: SL10190.
Unknown author, The royal family: Queen Maria Karađorđević with her sons Peter II, Tomislav and Andrej. Black-and-white photograph, 12.9 × 17.8 cm, inv. no.: SL10190.