Passport Collection

Passport 1914
The British passport of Digby Lander for travel to Russia during World War One

Young Russian inventor Anatol M Josephs received the first US patent for a fully automatic photographic film developing machine

Photograph of a woman in a hat
Head and shoulders photograph of a woman in a hat, possibly an early passport photo. Date: late 1920s

CHINESE FUNERAL CUSTOM
The corpse is provided with a passport to ensure his easy entry into the next world : this is burned at the time of his funeral Date: 1915

Cartoon, Channel swimmer asked for passport. 1923

Visa pages with stamps in a French passport valid for one year from 15 March 1921, belonging to Mlle Henriette Stephanie Pannier, student

Signature page, French passport valid for one year from 15 March 1921, belonging to Mlle Henriette Stephanie Pannier, student. Date: 1921

British passport from Gibraltar to Madrid, one journey, made out to Captain J Coulson, Army Service Corps, Bearer of Despatches. 1900

British passport from Madrid to Gibraltar, made out to Captain John Coulson, British subject, travelling with despatches, dated 3 November 1900. 1900

A young lady peeps into a passport booth in Eccles Date: circa 1982

Cartoon, passport control in the old days
Cartoon depicting passport control in the old days, showing soldiers examining the passports of coach passengers at the entry to a French town

Arriving at Paris 1936
English passengers arriving at Le Bourget airport, Paris, are directed to customs and passport control Date: 1936

Details and photo, French passport valid for one year from 15 March 1921, belonging to Mlle Henriette Stephanie Pannier, student. Date: 1921

Title page, French passport valid for one year from 15 March 1921, belonging to Mlle Henriette Stephanie Pannier, student. Date: 1921

Text explaining how American Visas work - Tall Ship picture
Text explaining how American Visas work and an inset illustration of an elegant tall ship, a three-master, possibly a tea clipper? Date: 1920s

Enquirers at the British Consulate, Paris at outbreak of WW1
Enquirers at the British Consulate, Paris at the outbreak of WW1 Date: 1914

Spanish refugees in Gibraltar are given a meal of soup and bread by local boy scouts after crossing the frontier from Spain, 4 February 1965. Although Spanish-speaking, their passports are British

Cartoon story, An Attempt on Antwerp, WW1
Cartoon story, An Attempt on Antwerp, illustrating an attempt on the part of the journalist " Jingle" and the artist Norman Morrow to obtain passports in order to visit Antwerp at their

Hillmans Airways Essex Airport Poster
Poster, Hillmans Airways, Essex Airport, offering flights from London to Paris (no passports required), Belfast, Liverpool and the Isle of Man, with prices and flight durations. 20th century

Passport Office and the Quayside - Izmir, Turkey Date: circa 1900s

Passport Control, Venice
English tourists wait while their passports are examined by a suspicious official at Venice. Date: 1854

Pasaport Quay - Izmir (Smyrna)
The Pasaport Quay - Customs and Immigration House at the harbour of Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey

Passport Bureau at Haydar Pasa
The rather extraordinary Passport Bureau at Haydar Pasa

The Passport Office at Delagoa Bay, Africa, 1889
Engraving showing the Passport office run by the Portuguese at Delagoa Bay, East Africa, 1889

German ambassador leaving London
Photograph of Prince Charles Max Lichnowsky, German ambassador to Great Britain since 1912, shortly after the war was officially declared by Great Britain on August 4th 1914

Examining Passports at Ellis Island, New York, 1911
Photograph showing immigrants queuing up at the passport control on Ellis Island, New York, 1911

Passport 1914 Reverse
Reverse, with stamps and signatures, of the British passport of Digby Lander for travel to Russia during World War One

Vendee : Passport
Facsimile of a passport issued at Chollet (Cholet) by the royalists in the Vendee by the commanders of the catholic and royal armies of the Breton resistance

Gatwick Passport Control
The Passport Control section at London Gatwick Airport, England

Alfred Edward Housman
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN English scholar and poet. Passport photograph when he was 70 years old

Passport 1921
Joint passport for husband and wife, issued to Mr and Mrs Digby Lander (parents of Mary Evans who founded this Library)

French Passport 1871
The handwritten modification of this passport, changing Empire to Republique, reflects the changes in France after the war with Prussia and abdication of Napoleon III

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