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 […]
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 […]
Chinese passport 1924 Russian immigration – Manchukuo A very interesting passport which is not often to find. Issued in Shanghai in 1924 for a 25 yo woman. Several interesting stamps […]
Beautiful US Passport 1886 Legation London With Several Russian Visa This large US passport was issued at the US legation in London in April 1886 to a 28-year-old Philippe Victor […]
Russian Empress Elizabeth Passport 1747, signed by future Czar Peter III. Peter III was emperor of Russia for a mere six months in 1762 before he was overthrown by his […]
William Pinkney Great Britain U.S. senator and statesman William Pinkney (1764-1822) was notable for his support of the Missouri Compromise, a piece of legislation designed to restrict the advance of […]
Protectorate Bohemia Moravia Kaschau After World War I and during the gradual break-up of Austria-Hungary, the city at first became a part of the transient “Eastern Slovak Republic”, declared on […]
Nobel Prize Ivan Pavlov Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov developed his concept of the conditioned reflex through a famous study with dogs and won a Nobel Prize Award in 1904. Born […]
Jewish Widow German Consul The occupation in the passport says “Konsulswitwe” (widow of a consul). I couldn’t find any data during my research on who this consul was. But what […]
