Passports by country

The booklet a consul would have filled in between 1920 and 1939, and the visas and frontier stamps a campaign leaves in it.

Bearer prints it for 14 offices: Austria, China (Republic), Egypt, France, Germany, International type, Iraq, Italy, Nansen certificate, Palestine, Poland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States. 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

• Austria
• Egypt
• France
• Germany
• The international type passport
• Iraq
• Italy
• Nansen certificate
• Palestine
• Poland
• Switzerland
• United Kingdom
• United States

Sources

• Republik Österreich, Bezirkshauptmannschaft Hietzing-Umgebung; Freies Deutsches Hochstift, Frankfurter Goethe-Museum (Hs-Foto-1497), through museum-digital:hessen and Europeana (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), Reisepass of the Republic of Austria no. 1197 (booklet no. 199,830), issued at Vienna on 8 July 1927 to Hugo von Hofmannsthal, valid until 7 July 1929, read page by page, cover (orange card, the printed number, R.Ö. perforated through every leaf), page 1 (Dieser Reisepaß enthält 32 Seiten / Ce passeport contient 32 pages, the eagle, REISEPASS / PASSEPORT, REPUBLIK ÖSTERREICH / REPUBLIQUE D'AUTRICHE, number, name, wife, children, nationality, the revenue stamps, a rubber stamp "Zuständig"), page 2 (Personsbeschreibung / Signalement, a column for the wife, Kinder / Enfants), page 3 (the photographs, Trockenstempel / Timbre sec, the signatures, Für die Paßbehörde), page 4 (the countries it is valid for, struck with a rubber stamp; the expiry; place and date of issue; three renewals), pages 5 to 32 (visas, no heading); an Italian consular visa of 15 July 1927 dated in the Fascist era, stamps of the Italian posts at the Brenner, Coccau and Passo Drava, a Hungarian visa and a stamp of Hegyeshalom, a Swiss stamp of Buchs (read directly)
• Wikimedia Commons (public domain, self-scanned), Passport of the Republic of China No. 200384, issued by the Legation in Berlin, 23 August 1934 (Minguo 23), pages 2 and 3, p. 2: the photographs, two revenue stamps of one dollar, 姓名 年歲 職業 籍貫 身量 相貌 in columns; p. 3: the number, 外交部為發給護照事茲有 … 前往 … 取道 … 應請 友邦地方文武官員妥為照料遇事襄助 須至護照者 中華民國 … 年 … 月 … 日; 此照限用叁年全冊共拾陸頁; 照費國幣貳元 留學工人減半; 發照機關長官簽印, the legation's seal (LEGATION DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE CHINE, BERLIN) and signature (read directly)
• Overseas Chinese Museum, Xiamen; photographed for Wikimedia Commons (public domain), Passport of the Republic of China No. 566643, issued by the Consul for China at Kuala Lumpur, 3 April 1939 (Minguo 28), pages 2 and 3, the same form as the booklet of 1934: the particulars, the request, three years, sixteen pages, the fee of two dollars with half for students and workers; the Ministry's revenue stamp of two dollars and four of ten cents; CONSUL FOR CHINA, KUALA LUMPUR (read directly)
• Ernie Lo, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), Cover of a passport of the Republic of China issued by the Beiyang government, 1920s, dark cloth; a wreath of grain in gold; 中華民國外交部護照 in one column (read directly)
• Royaume d'Égypte, Ministère de l'Intérieur, Direction Générale de la Sécurité Publique; photograph on Wikimedia Commons ('1938 Egyptian passport used for travelling to Germany', CC BY-SA 4.0), Passport of the Kingdom of Egypt, Modèle No. 117, no. 56826, issued at Cairo on 12 July 1938 to Mohamed Hosni Bey, the leaf before page 1: the form number, the Kingdom, the Ministry of the Interior and the Directorate General of Public Security, PASSEPORT, the town, the request to Egypt's officials and consuls in French and Arabic side by side, made at … on the … day of the month of … 19.., the Governor's signature; page 1: the Kingdom, the count of 32 pages, the number, PASSEPORT, the bearer's name, accompanied by his wife (maiden name), and … children, nationality; French on the left, Arabic on the right, the page numbered in both scripts. (read directly)
• Republique francaise, photographs on Wikimedia Commons, French passport, form J. 7167-37, issued by the consulate general of France at Beyrouth on 21 October 1938, read page by page (cover, 1 to 7 and 32), cover, pages 1 (identity), 2 (signalement), 3 (photograph), 4 (validity), 5 and 6 (prorogations), 7 and 32 (visas) (read directly)
• Deutsches Reich; photographs of the Georg Bredig papers, Science History Institute, through the Digital Public Library of America, on Wikimedia Commons, Reisepass of the German Reich no. 4480, issued by the police president of Karlsruhe on 10 August 1939, read page by page, page 1 (identity, the Weimar eagle, the notice of 32 pages), page 2 (photographs, signatures and the office's certificate), page 3 (Personenbeschreibung and the children), page 4 (Geltungsbereich, expiry, issuing authority), page 5 (Verlängerungen, three blocks), pages 6 to 32 (visas, with no printed heading) (read directly)
• League of Nations, Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit, Resolution adopted by the Conference on Passports, Customs Formalities and Through Tickets in Paris on October 21st, 1920 (Passport Conference, Preparatory Documents II), C.641.M.230.1925.VIII (read directly)
• Royaume d'Irak; photograph on Wikimedia Commons ('1934 Iraqi passport used up to 1939 for Europe and British Palestine', CC BY-SA 4.0), Passport of the Kingdom of Iraq no. 1220, issued at Baghdad on 28 June 1934 to Rosa Abraham Haim, widow of David Murad, the leaf with the King's name: Royaume d'Irak, PASSEPORT, au nom de Sa Majesté le Roi d'Irak, à tous ceux qui ces présentes verront: salut !, the request to the Royal Iraqi Government's officials and representatives and to foreign authorities, in French and Arabic side by side, délivré à … le … (the day in words) … 19.., the Chief of the Passport Bureau; the facing page: the royal arms, the count of 32 pages in Arabic, PASSEPORT, Royaume d'Irak, the number, the bearer's name, his wife's name, the number of children, nationality, the labels in Arabic above French at the right, the values written on the lines in both scripts. (read directly)
• Regno d'Italia, Ministero degli Affari Esteri; photograph on Wikimedia Commons (public domain), Passaporto of the Kingdom of Italy no. 738226, the inside of the cover and page 1, stamped REGIO SERVIZIO by a consulate in 1942, inside of the cover: the windows of the cover seen from inside, "Non si passa la frontiera senza aver redatto completamente e consegnata la cedola statistica"; page 1: "Il presente passaporto consta di ventiquattro pagine", N.° del Passaporto, N.° del Registro, the arms, IN NOME DI SUA MAESTÀ Vittorio Emanuele III PER GRAZIA DI DIO E PER VOLONTÀ DELLA NAZIONE RE D'ITALIA IMPERATORE D'ETIOPIA, Il Ministro degli Affari Esteri rilascia il presente PASSAPORTO al Signor … accompagnat… da (1), "(1) Possono iscriversi sul passaporto la moglie ed i figli" (read directly)
• League of Nations, Arrangement with regard to the issue of certificates of identity to Russian Refugees, signed at Geneva, July 5, 1922, with the form of certificate annexed, Treaty Series, vol. XIII, no. 355, pp. 237-241 (French and English official texts) (read directly)
• Government of Palestine, Department of Immigration; signed for the High Commissioner, Sir Arthur Wauchope. Photographs on Wikimedia Commons (Sp21-004, Sp21-005, public domain), British passport, Palestine, no. 86944, issued at Jerusalem on 21 June 1937 to Rafael Roschanski, the cover (number and name through two windows, BRITISH PASSPORT, the royal arms, PALESTINE); the inside of the cover, the High Commissioner's request in English, then in Arabic, then in Hebrew, dated at Jerusalem, the English filled in and the pronouns (him, he) written by hand; page 1 in English and French on the left, Arabic and Hebrew on the right: the count of pages, PASSPORT / PALESTINE in the three scripts, PASSEPORT, the number, the bearer's name, the wife (maiden name), the children, the national status (stamped: Palestinian under Article seven of the Palestinian Citizenship Order, 1925). (read directly)
• Rzeczpospolita Polska, Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych; photograph on Wikimedia Commons ('PaszportRzeczpospolitaPolska.1931.jpg', CC BY-SA 2.5), Paszport / Passeport of the Republic of Poland, Ser. I. No. 115509, issued by the county office (Starostwo Powiatowe) of Chrzanów on 8 April 1931, read page by page, cover (dark blue cloth, PASZPORT, the eagle in a ring, RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA, in gold), page 1 (series and number, the office's register number, the red stamp of the fee paid, the eagle, RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA / M.S.W. / RÉPUBLIQUE POLONAISE / M.I., PASZPORT-PASSEPORT, Obywatel polski / Citoyen polonais, zamieszkały w / domicilié à, w towarzystwie żony / accompagné de sa femme, i … dzieci / et de … enfants, Paszport ten zawiera 40 stronic / Ce passeport contient 40 pages), page 2 (Rysopis - Signalement, a column Żona - Femme, Dzieci - Enfants), page 3 (Fotografje - Photographies, four round seals of the county office over the corners, Podpis posiadacza / Signature du porteur), page 4 (the countries, the request to foreign and Polish authorities, the expiry, the red stamp Za Starostę powiatowego, Pieczęć / Sceau, Podpis / Signature, Data / Date, Chrzanów, dnia …), pages 5 and 6 (Wznowienia - Renouvellements, two blocks a page), page 7 (Uwagi - Observations, a red stamp: PASZPORT WAŻNY NA JEDNORAZOWY WYJAZD ZA GRANICĘ), page 8 (the booklet's rules), page 9 (Stemple polskiej kontroli granicznej, Wyjazd - Sortie, Wjazd - Entrée), page 16 (Meldunki), page 17 onwards (Wizy - Visas); Swiss, Italian, Austrian and Czechoslovak visas of 1931 (read directly)
• Rzeczpospolita Polska; the Dziennik Ustaw page in ISAP, the Sejm's database, Ustawa z dnia 14 lipca 1936 r. o paszportach (Dz. U. 1936 nr 56 poz. 404), art. 8: ordinary passports are for one person, the wife may be written in the husband's, children under 13 in a parent's; art. 10(1): ordinary passports may be issued for up to three years, extensions allowed but the whole term from the day of issue may not pass five years; art. 10(2): good for several journeys out and back unless the office limits their number; art. 11: good for every foreign country unless the office limits it; art. 12: the fee set by the Minister of the Interior on monthly periods of validity; art. 23: passports issued before keep their validity to the end of their term; art. 27: in force thirty days after publication (read directly)
• Rzeczpospolita Polska; the Dziennik Ustaw page in ISAP, Ustawa z dnia 17 lipca 1924 r. w sprawie opłat za paszporty na wyjazd zagranicę (Dz. U. 1924 nr 69 poz. 672), art. 1: passports for going abroad pay the fee the Minister of the Treasury sets with the Minister of the Interior; diplomatic passports and those of workers and emigrants free; art. 2: 25 zloty for business travel; art. 3: 20 zloty for study, research, treatment, congresses, sport or social purposes (read directly)
• Confédération suisse, Légation de Suisse à Berlin; photograph on Wikimedia Commons, Swiss passport issued by the Swiss legation in Berlin, 1923, pages 4 and 5, page 4 (one heading, "Signalement." then "Connotati.": Age: Né le / Alter: geb. den / Età: nato il; Stature / Gestalt / Corporatura; Taille / Höhe / Statura, in centimetres; Cheveux, Front, Sourcils, Yeux, Nez, Bouche, Menton, Visage, Signes particuliers, each in French, German and Italian; Signature du porteur / Unterschrift des Inhabers / Firma del titolare), page 5 (the photograph, the legation's seal, its certificate struck in German with a rubber stamp); every page headed and footed "Ce livret est de 32 pages / Dieses Büchlein umfasst 32 Seiten / Questo libretto consta di 32 pagine" and numbered in the three languages (Page quatrième / Vierte Seite / Pagina quarta) (read directly)
• Foreign Office; photographs of the Robert Byron Papers, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, on Wikimedia Commons, British passport no. 330155, issued by the Foreign Office on 8 March 1923, read inside cover and pages 1 to 3, inside front cover (the Secretary of State's request, the six-penny revenue stamp), page 1 (identity), page 2 (description, wife's column, children), page 3 (photographs of bearer and wife) (read directly)
• Department of State, photographs held by the Missouri Historical Society through the Digital Public Library of America, on Wikimedia Commons, United States passport no. 1892, issued at Washington on 17 May 1927, read cover and pages 2 to 5 (the booklet carried on the New York to Paris flight), cover (the number in a window, the Great Seal, PASSPORT / UNITED STATES OF AMERICA), page 2 (the Secretary of State's request, wife and minor children, the seal), page 3 (the validity notice), page 4 (photograph of bearer), page 5 (description of bearer) (read directly)
• Department of State, photographs on Wikimedia Commons, United States passport issued at Washington on 14 December 1934, read pages 2 to 5, page 2 (the request), page 3 (description of bearer, and 'This passport is not valid unless signed by the person to whom it has been issued'), page 4 (photograph), page 5 (the validity notice, without the sentence forbidding extension) (read directly)

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