Bijeli orao (White Eagle), postcard for the first Yugoslav all-Sokol rally, Ljubljana, 12-15 August 1922
A white eagle with the Serbian cross-and-firesteels shield on its breast grips a bundle of staffs above toppled imperial emblems, among them a double-headed eagle. The tell is the borrowed state emblem: the national arms are placed on a gymnastic movement's rally card and set over the fallen emblems of the old empires.
- Date
- August 1922
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Yugoslav Sokol movement (postcard published by D. O., Zagreb; painting by Dragutin Inkiostri Medenjak)
- Medium
- Postcard
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Leader
- Nikola Pasic
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Commemorate
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1922; artist died 1942, Commons PD-old-80)
Dragutin Inkiostri Medenjak, 'Bijeli Orao', postcard 1922, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).
Text on the object
[artist's signature at lower left in Cyrillic, illegible at this size]
[artist's signature at lower left in Cyrillic, illegible at this size]
The card carries no printed caption on the front; only a signature is visible. The title and rally are taken from the Commons description.
