Table of Contents Acknowledgment............................................................... 15 Preface, Or: Why This Book?............................................17 Passports and Their Design...............................................20 A Letter of Recommendation................................................... 20 Passport Design in History....................................................... 22 Timeline......................................................................................22 Durability................................................................................... 23 Watermark.................................................................................24 Graphic Design...........................................................................25 Printed Passports...................................................................... 25 First Passport Booklets............................................................. 25 Multi-Passenger Passport.................................................28 United States of America, 1852................................................ 29 Yugoslavia, 1933........................................................................31 100 Years Passport Photo.................................................32 A Brief History of Traveling.............................................. 40 The Invention of Travel............................................................ 41 Thomas Cook Starts A Revolution........................................... 42 Travel In Germany During The Nazi Era................................. 42 Cleaning Lady Island.................................................................43 Let Pass or Die - The Paiza of Genghis Khan.................. 45 The Last Emperor of The Holy Roman Empire............... 49 Henry Viscount Sidney - British Passport 1692............. 53 Passport 1785 For US Envoy John Lamb......................... 56 US Passport - Island of Puerto Rico 1926........................ 58 A German Countess Passport 1646.................................60 Peter Ill's Signed Passport................................................. 61 The German Empire and Its Passports.............................65 The first Passport Booklet................................................. 69 German Colonies.................................................................71 The Nansen Passport.........................................................73 A significant Passport for British History........................ 77 British Ship's Passport - Island of Jersey 1753............... 81 Have You Ever Heard of The Ionian Islands?..................83 British Passport 1897 - Jerusalem....................................85 The King's & Queen's Messenger....................................87 History........................................................................................ 87 Modern day................................................................................ 88 The Passport...............................................................................90 British Diplomatic Passport 1914....................................93 Heligoland Passport 1881................................................98 A Scottish Passport for The National Museum...........101 Passport Conferences & Territory Issues......................103 Lady Diana Cooper's Passport Photo............................ 106 Friedrich von Zeppelin Passport....................................109 German Ambassador von Wangenheim.......................112 German - Austrian Passport............................................117 Free City of Danzig Passport...........................................120 A German Schoolgirl's Passport.....................................123 A Housemaid Forced to Return to The Reich.............127 Italian Social Republic Passport (1943-1945).............. 131 Jewish Refugees Nobody Wanted (SS St. Louis).........135 A US Consul Saved Jewish Lives.....................................141 The Beautiful Wife of a War Criminal........................... 144 Austria Diplomatic Passport 1935..................................148 Where Is the Passport of Adolf Hitler?......................... 152 French Passport - National Assembly 1791..................156 How the Swiss Passport Became Red............................157 From Safe Conduct to Passport Letter...................................158 Clothes make the Man............................................................. 158 A Passport for each Canton.....................................................159 First Passport Regulation....................................................... 159 Red only since 1959................................................................ 160 Swissair Chief Pilot & Aviation Pioneer......................... 161 Cold War - Swiss Passport issued in East Berlin..........164 Francis Gary Powers' U.S. Passport...............................166 Spy mission.............................................................................. 168 Shot down.................................................................................169 Death.........................................................................................170 Passport of A Nobel Peace Prize Laureate....................171 Minister Murdered by The Iron Guards........................ 173 A Deputies Passport - Frankfurt Parliament 1848.......177 Vimy Pilgrimage - Special Passport Canada................ 179 Manchukuo Passport.......................................................181 Anna Pavlova To Tour the World...................................184 Princess Natalja of Montenegro...................................186 The First Tibetan Passport.............................................191 The Passports of a German Field Marshal....................195 Don't You Know Who I Am?............................................198 The British Visitor's Passport......................................... 201 Traveling in Wartime with A False Passport................ 208 A German President's Passport.....................................211 Casanova's Passport................................................. 214 British Palestine Passport with an Israel Stamp.........216 Commander James Rowney - Pearl Harbor................. 220 Passport 1756 For Three Delaware Indians................. 225 U.S. Passport 1796 David Humphreys..........................228 Massachusetts Passport 1814....................................... 234 U.S. General of The Colored Troops............................. 239 American Civil War-Travel Documents......................242 1942 Passport with Color Photo....................................251 A Diplomatic Courier Travels the World.......................253 German Minister Friedrich Von Gerolt......................... 258 A Passport of The Hanseatic Republics......................... 260 U.S. Passport of Edward Dehne..................................... 265 A Lucky Find - Marvin Gaye's Passport......................... 270 Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Passport....................................... 272 A German Black Passport................................................275 The Passport History of Siam & Thailand......................277 African/Caribbean/Black British Passports...................284 The Most Expensive Collectible Passport.....................293 The Most Unusual Photo in A Modern Passport........295 Titanic Survivor Edith Brown Haisman.......................... 297 An East German Passport with a 1995 Visa?.............. 301 Why are passport covers limited to so few colors?.... 303 Fantasy and Camouflage Passports..............................305 Sigmund Freud's British Passport.................................305 The Nordic Passport Union.............................................308 The First Passport of The European Union.................. 311 Facts About the North Korean Passport.......................314 Is It Allowed to Sell/Buy Passports?.............................. 319 The Legal Aspect..................................................................... 319 Passport Laws..........................................................................319 Theory and Praxis.......................................... 319 Collecting Old & Obsolete (Historical) Passports................. 320 Collector's Guideline....................................................... 322 The Beginning of a Passport System in Europe....................322 Passport Collecting - How to Start?...................................... 322 What to Collect?...................................................................... 322 Where to Find Old Passports?................................................323 Value of Historical Passports................................................. 323 Literature on Passport History and Collecting..................... 324 Passport Collecting Summary................................................ 325 A Collectors Story.............................................................326 Security Features of Modern Passports........................328 Passport Stamps...............................................................332 Celebrity Passports..........................................................334 Passports (Citizenships) For Sale....................................337 What Does Your Passport Reveal About You?.............. 339 The Future of The Passport.............................................342 Pictures..............................................................................344 Index...................................................................................350.