DescriptionButton, promotional: F. Missler, Bremen. No date, circa 1895-1915. Color lithographed metal, 1-5/8" diameter; pin clasp. Photo portrait of Friedrich Missler. It is has not been found whether this button was issued as a promotional item for his ticket agency business (likely) or as tribute to him as a philanthropist. Friedrich Missler (1858-1922) was the founder in 1881 of a travel agency in Bremen, Germany, that specialized in passage for emigrants to the United States. As a ticket agent from 1885 to 1935, the company used the North German Lloyd Lines which up until World War I had Hoboken as its American home port (and did ocassionally dock here after the war up to the late 1920s.) Missler had many offices outside of Bremen and served Poland and the Slavic countries. He was also notable for creating halls or homes for emigrants awaiting emigration (per Wikipedia: Missler built on the Walsrode street in the district of Bremen Findorff in cooperation with the North German Lloyd 1905 four permanent halls for 250 Eastern European emigrants.) Separately there was a Friedrich Missler Foundation created by him (per Wikipedia: 1894/95 he acquired the farms Achterberg and Siemsglüss in Obereinzingen at Dorfmark, where he established a convalescent home for sick adults and children later from Bremen. It was operated from 1896 until the end of World War II.) ==== ----- immigration / passenger ships /