A Russian Passport Application Album 1917 From Hawaii At the beginning of the 20th century Hawaii sugar plantation owners began to recruit laborers of European background. Former Secretary of the Territory of Hawaii and Director of the Bureau of Immigration,…
German Prussian Passport 1922 – Palestine Wanderer This German Prussian passport from 1922 was issued in Breslau an bears a early visa for Palestine (via Egypt) issued by the British at their embassy in Berlin plus an Austrian visa marked…
Chinese passport 1925 Russian immigration – Manschukuo A very interesting passport which is not often to find. Issued in Shanghai in 1924 for a 25 yo woman. Several interesting stamps and revenues. Colombo, Shanghai, Marseille, Saigon. Sold for $1025 at…
This large US passport was issued at the US legation in London in April 1886 to a 28 year old Philippe Victor Lacoste traveling to Russia. The several visa and revenue stamps from Russia are wonderful and so is the…
Russian Emperor for six month – Czar Peter III Passport Peter III was emperor of Russia for a mere six months in 1762 before he was overthrown by his wife, Catherine the Great, and assassinated in 1762. Peter III was emperor…
Passport Fees Around The World 2018 Here are the passport fees around the world originally based on a older British Passport Office list. The old (2010) original PDF-file can be downloaded here. Updated data are as following, coming from readers…
Leon Trotsky was a key figure in the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia, second only to Vladimir Lenin in the early stages of Soviet communist rule. But he lost out to Joseph Stalin in the power struggle that followed…
German Passport of Ernst Munzinger – Plot against Hitler 74 years after the failed assassination plot on Adolf Hitler… The following passport is of significant importance in German history as it’s bearer was a conspirator in the German Resistance and…
Tsar Nicholas II Passport – 100th Anniversary Of His Murder Exactly this week – 100 years ago in the early hours of the morning of 17 July 1918, the deposed Tsar, his wife Alexandra, and their children Grand Duchesses Olga,…
A unusual German Empire passport – Kingdom of Saxony When I first spotted this document, I thought – ah just another German Empire I already have in my archive. But then I had a second deeper look and saw…