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German Passport for a French Nobleman escaping the French Revolution
Not often you find passports of Germany that old and in good condition – passports of the 18th century are rare at all. I was lucky enough to grab this nice document for my collection. What you see...
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Clara Barton – Highlights of an Extraordinary Life
Clarissa Harlowe Barton, known as Clara, is one of the most honored women in American history. Barton risked her life to bring supplies and support to soldiers in the field during the Civil War. She...
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SS Officer Passport – Karl von Krempler
Passport Karl von Krempler Karl von Krempler was SS Standartenführer and SS-und Polizeiführer during World War II responsible for recruiting Muslims from Bosnia and the Sanjak region into the Waffen...
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German History – The Rise And Fall Of The Berlin Wall
On this day, 59 years ago the Berlin Wall was built. A significant event for Germany and the Western world. Today, Germany will be already reunified for already 30 years in October 2020. German History...
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Scarce US Consulate Lisbon Passport 1943
US Embassies and Consulates during WWII US Consulate Lisbon 1943 There is hardly a country in Europe that was not temporarily occupied by German troops between October 1938 and May 1945 or at least...
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The old German Embassy in Washington
The old German Embassy was located just west of Thomas Circle at 1435-41 Massachusetts Avenue, NW. In 1894 the German embassy occupied a new chancery at 1435 Massachusetts Avenue. That building,...
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Congressman George V. Hansen – Iran Hostage Crisis
George V. Hansen, a flamboyant Idaho congressman who launched a quixotic one-man mission to bring back U.S. hostages from Iran and who later went to prison for violating federal ethics laws, died Aug....
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Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz Passport, Zurich 1948
Kupfer Koberwitz Dachau Diaries On May 11, 1945, just three days after the German capitulation, the US-Missions in Bern, Stockholm, and Madrid requested access to the German Diplomatic Archives. A...
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Passport Fees Around The World 2020
Passport Fees Around The World 2020 Passports are a necessity in today’s global world and so are the fees someone has to pay for a travel document. In the best case, you pay this fee only every ten...
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Vichy Diplomatic Passport – Ambassador Labonne
Eirik Labonne, born in Paris on October 4, 1888, and died on November 12, 1971, was a French diplomat who began his career just before the First World War. Vichy Diplomatic Passport Labonne Eirik...
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US Passport 1886 Congressman Morse
Leopold Morse was a United States Representative from Massachusetts, and this is his 1886 US passport. Leopold Morse Morse was born in 1831 in Wachenheim, Germany, and attended the common schools...
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The Passport From Princess Natalja Of Montenegro Is Back To It`s Family
By Géraldine Cerf de Dudzeele, Paris – repost from 2013 Passport Princess Natalja Montenegro Géraldine Cerf de Dudzeele Natalija Konstantinović was born in Trieste (Italy) in 1882 as the daughter of...
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References
references BERLINER KURIER DDR-Geschichte: Sammler zahlen viel Geld für alte Reisepässe PETER POLACK, BOOK AUTHOR Support for passport pictures for his upcoming Encyclopedia of Soviet Spymasters...
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Mata Hari (Margaretha G. Zelle) Identity Papers
A recent TV documentation about this extraordinary woman inspired me to write this article. Mata Hari, real name Margaretha Geertuida Zelle, was born in 1876 in Leeuwarden, Holland. At 19, she married...
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German Passport issued in the Polish Corridor
Polish Corridor The Polish Corridor (also known as the Gdansk Corridor or Vistula Corridor, Polish Korytarz Polski) was a former Prussian strip of land between Pomerania (or Pomerellen) in the west and...
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Cuba Diplomatic Passport – Prime Minister & Wife
As a collector, you don’t often see a Cuban diplomatic passport, but the following document was even issued to Prime Minister Felix Lancis Sanchez and his wife, Carmelina. Sanchez was a lawyer who...
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Rare Ukrainian Soviet Republic Passport 1925 for Brazil
Ukrainian Soviet Republic Passport Ukrainian Soviet Republic PassportAfter the Bolsheviks conquered Kyiv, they proclaimed the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in January 1919. In March, the first...
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Pierre Cartier’s French passport issued in New York
Pierre Camille Cartier (March 10, 1878 – October 27, 1964) was a French jeweler. He was one of three sons of Alfred Cartier and the brother of Jacques Cartier and Louis Cartier. Pierre’s grandfather,...
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Passport 1792 issued by Francis James Jackson
Francis James Jackson (December 1770 – 5 August 1814) was a British diplomat, ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Prussia, and the United States. He entered the diplomatic service only at age 16 as a...
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Vatican City passport 1934 for a Cardinal
Mario Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano (12 August 1903 – 9 November 1988) was an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Apostolic Palace from 1967 until his death and was...
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