The Citizen Seaman's Identification Card

From the Act of May 22, 1918 an American seaman could not sail from or land in a United States port without his Citizen Seaman's Identification Card, Form K: issued by a customs or immigration official, completed with his photograph, his left thumb print and the places of birth of himself and his parents, certified by the Collector of Customs, and verified by an inspector at every subsequent arrival and departure.

Bearer prints it off card No. 35305, issued at New York on 23 March 1920. When the card stopped being required after the war laws lapsed has not been found.

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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The paper

Still to be confirmed

• the card read was issued in March 1920; when the card stopped being required after the war laws of 1918 lapsed has not been found, and it is offered through the whole window. What would settle it: the regulations on citizen seamen's cards after 1921.
• the end of the Immigrant Inspector's paragraph on landing is cut off on the page read and is not printed. What would settle it: a clearer photograph of the card.
• the size of the card. What would settle it: a card measured.

Sources

• United States, Collector of Customs for the District of New York (Byron R. Newton); photographs on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), Citizen Seaman's Identification Card (Form K), No. 35305, issued at the port of New York on 23 March 1920 to Louis H. Hazzard, the cover (Form K., ORIGINAL, No., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, CITIZEN SEAMAN'S IDENTIFICATION CARD issued under Section 4588 of the Revised Statutes and the regulations prescribed by the President in pursuance of the Act of May 22, 1918, and the rules of its use); the identification page (photograph, left thumb print, name, nationality, places of birth of the holder, his father and his mother, naturalisation, age, height, vessel); the Collector's certificate and the Immigrant Inspector's permission to land; the verifications (subsequent arrivals in and departures from the United States: port, date, vessel, signature of the inspector) (read directly)

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