From military authority to civilian administration. Prior to the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, this was part of the British Empire, another colony; it was the Mandate, allocated to the United Kingdom after the end of World War One. The British won this territory from the Ottoman Turks, who have been occupying it for nearly 400 years...
Serving in Tel Aviv. Some of the rarest of passports to locate are those of official service in the young State of Israel. Though Israel ...
Swiss legation issued passport from 1919. Here is an important World War One travel document that was issued due to special war-time circumstances. During the First Great War of 1914-1918 not all ...
An SS officer & Swedish diplomat....
A British officials' visas throughout the years....
Very early Jewish immigration “visa” for Palestine. An attractive early Second Republic passport from 1920, the year that Poland began to print officially passports en bulk. This could be considered as the first version, with others appearing already in 1921, see sampled imprint: Drukarnia Panstwowa No 13682. 2. V .21 ...
Important 1943 issued passport from South America...
1931 issued passport to Antti Hackzell. Very important 20th century diplomatic passport issued to a famed and well known Finnish politician with a rich diplomatic career behind him. This figure helped shape some of the century's important historical agreements and attended important conventions, climaxing with the 1944 Finnish-Soviet peace talks. ...
Here is an early Republican Chinese entry visa for Harbin from 1920. Chinese passports are rather interesting, and the 20th century has seen various types being issued: Qing Dynasty, the Nationalist Republic and the People's Republic of China. ...
1936 Danzig consular (!) passport used for the Mandate. Another fascinating pre-war travel document being used by a Jewish teenager...
