Identity cards by country

The identity card a state issued its own people for the police at home: the particulars, the photograph, the prints.

Bearer prints it for 3 offices: Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, Germany, United Kingdom. Each is read off a document of the time or reconstructed on the country's law, and says which.

Bearer makes an investigator's papers for Call of Cthulhu and any 1920s or 1930s tabletop campaign: the passport a consul would have filled in, with the visas and frontier stamps a campaign leaves in it, and the permits, certificates and tickets of the period, to print or to share.

An example

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Every office Bearer prints it for

Each version in full

• The German Kennkarte

Sources

• Wikimedia Commons (public domain), Kipande (certificate under the Native Registration Ordinance, 1921) No. S.K. 305096, South Kavirondo, 4 May 1931, as photographed in 1936, N.P.R.; COLONY AND PROTECTORATE OF KENYA.; A. (To be retained by Native.); CERTIFICATE ISSUED UNDER THE NATIVE REGISTRATION ORDINANCE, 1921.; Name, Father's name, District, Tribe, Location, Sub-location, Group, Clan, Circumcision Age (or year); Signature of Registering Officer; the date; District; the number with the district's letters; the box for the thumb; the table: (1) Name of Employer and District, (2) Nature of Employment, (3) Date of Employment, (4) Rate of Wages: On Engagement, On Discharge, (5) If Posho given, add "Posho", (6) Date of Discharge, (7) Employer's Signature (when discharging Native); typed and written in (read directly)
• Wikimedia Commons (public domain), Kennkarte, form A 104 (8.38), issued by the Polizeipräsidium München on 9 March 1939 to Hugo Erlanger, with the J and the forename Israel, left: Kennort, Kennnummer, Gültig bis (five years), Name, Vornamen, Geburtstag, Geburtsort, Beruf, Unveränderliche Kennzeichen, Veränderliche Kennzeichen, Bemerkungen, the large J across the table; right: the photograph, Rechter Zeigefinger and Linker Zeigefinger (the prints), (Unterschrift des Kennkarteninhabers), München, am … 19.., Polizeipräsidium, I. A., (Unterschrift des ausfertigenden Beamten), the office's round stamps; foot: A 104 (8.38) (read directly)
• Reichsgesetzblatt 1938 I, p. 913 (Wikisource transcription), Verordnung über Kennkarten, 22 July 1938, § 1 (a general police identity card for German nationals from their fifteenth year, compulsory for the groups the Minister names), § 2 (applied for at the local police, issued by the Paßbehörde), § 3 (photographs, fingerprints, signature), § 5 (the Minister’s model, no alteration), § 6 (five years, no extension), § 7 (three Reichsmark, one for a new card after a change of name or profession), § 14 (in force on 1 October 1938) (read directly)
• Imperial War Museums, on Wikimedia Commons (public domain), National Registration Identity Card, inside and cover (photographs D1886 and D1887 of the Ministry of Information, a card of 21 May 1940, Hampstead), cover: NATIONAL REGISTRATION IDENTITY CARD under the Royal Arms, a double rule; inside, left: NATIONAL REGISTRATION, the code in three boxes (the enumeration district's letters, the household, the person), the name (surname, forenames); 1. This Identity Card must be carefully preserved. You may need it under conditions of national emergency for important purposes. You must not lose it or allow it to be stolen. If, nevertheless, it is stolen or completely lost, you must report the fact in person at any local National Registration Office. 2. You may have to show your Identity Card to persons who are authorised by law to ask you to produce it. 3. You must not allow your Identity Card to pass into the hands of unauthorised persons or strangers. Every grown up person should be responsible for the keeping of his or her Identity Card. The Identity Card of a child should be kept by the parent or guardian or person in charge of the child for the time being. 4. Anyone finding this Card must hand it in at a Police Station or National Registration Office.; right: NATIONAL REGISTRATION, the code and name again, DO NOTHING WITH THIS PART UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD, Full Postal Address of Above Person, (Signed), Date (read directly)
• Parliament of the United Kingdom; the King's Printer's copy at legislation.gov.uk, National Registration Act, 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6 c. 91), as enacted, 5 September 1939, s. 1: a register of all persons in the United Kingdom at the appointed time, and of all persons entering or born after it; s. 6(1): the Registrar-General to issue a card containing the prescribed particulars (an identity card) for every registered person; s. 6(2): the form of the card prescribed by regulations; a constable in uniform, or any person authorised, may require the person responsible for its custody to produce it (read directly)

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