A WW2 related laissez-passer issued at Beijing. 1939 issued temporary travel document to a Chinese young man, a student, on the grounds of travelling to french controlled Vietnam possibly for personal affairs....
Serbian officer's official passport. 1914 to 1918 was the war that saw borders changing, empires crumbling and new orders rising. The passport in this article will relate to a specific location during that Great War. The Island of...
Qu'aiti State (القعيطي al-Qu‘ayṭī) Mukalla passport. Some of the rare and sort after passports are those issued in former colonial territories that once belonged to the va...
Issued by a diplomat with an interesting career. German passport number 2/35, itself being a remarkable low SN, was issued on January 2nd 1935 at the German consulate at Thorn (Toruń in Polish), located in northern Poland ...
US Navy officer serving in the Far East. Official passport issued on February 7th 1956 at Manila, Philippines, to naval officer ranked Lieutenant Commander (LCDR) named William Augustus Wheless, based at the Naval Station Sangley Point....
Issued by the Chinese foreign ministry for archival use abroad. Here is a rare 40 year old specimen passport issued by Beijing and w...
Issued in 1923 for travelling from Poland to Hungary. Here is a lovely passport...
Issued for immigration to British Palestine. Among the rare passports are those that were issued by the Soviet Union during the 1920's and 1930's, especially those issued for Jewish immigration to Palestine: The Communist authorities did not see kindly to the Zionist movement which they...
WW2 civilian internment camp. Even though the items in this article cannot be classified as travel documents, they are important and interesting enough to add images of them and explore the story behind them. During the war, each side, be it allied or axis, established...
Interesting German official passport used by Foreign Office interpreter and French law expert, Dr. Fritz Nordern, who was born to a Jewish family on March 19, 1881 in Leipzig and passed away on June 28, 1932 in Geneva ...
