Passport Collection (#3)

WATSON: PASSPORT, c1782. Passport issued to Elkanah Watson by Benjamin Franklin, from Passy, France, c1782

Close-up of bilingual cattle passports at livestock market, Brockholes Auction Mart, Preston, Lancashire, England, april

Woman filling in cattle passports at livestock market, with calves being unloaded from trailer in background, Brockholes Auction Mart, Preston, Lancashire, England, april

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

Passport
European passport for members of the European Union (EU). There are plans to introduce biometric identification, such as iris scanning, for use in passports

Human identification. Representation of a historical passport showing a collage of a portrait from the 1920s, with a passport fingerprint, writing and an official stamp

Genetic individuality, computer artwork
Genetic individuality. Conceptual computer artwork showing the ability of human genetic information to be translated into digital binary code for biometric purposes

United Kingdom passport under UV light
United Kingdom passport under ultraviolet (UV) light. Close up of passport design under UV light revealing invisible fluorescent ink

United Kingdom passport design. Close up of a page from inside a UK passport. The design incorporates invisible fluorescent ink that is only revealed under ultraviolet light

Passport in UV light. Close up photo of a biodata page from a UK passport. This page is printed with invisible inks that fluoresce strongly under ultraviolet (UV) light

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

Dog - Basset Hound - in studio with pet passport and vaccination record
LA-4739 Dog - Basset Hound - in studio with pet passport and vaccination record Jean Michel Labat Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Smooth Collie Dog - holding passport
JD-18533 DOG - Smooth Collie holding passport John Daniels Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Border Collie Dog - holding passport & wearing sunglasses
JD-18531 DOG - Border Collie holding passport and wearing sunglasses John Daniels Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

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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