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Ticket wallet with passport: Falck & Co., Hamburg; Hungarian passport of Joseph Lzel (Loazil?; Louzil?), 1914.
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Ticket wallet with passport: Falck & Co., Hamburg; Hungarian passport of Joseph Lzel (Loazil?; Louzil?), 1914.
Wallet: sewn plain canvas printed in black with brown cloth edging. 4-1/2" wide x 6-7/8" high. Two interior pockets. Interior and exterior printed in four languages.
Falck was an agent for Hamburg-American Lines (whose American home port was Hoboken in this era.) The passenger steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of that line is depicted on the outside.
Passport: Serial Number A.729.416. Issued to Joseph Lzel (age 37) for emigration to America. Family was also traveling on this passport and listed on page 5: wife Anna (age 31); Miklos (age 6); Josef (age 3).
Stated on page 3:
"Az allam vagy vilagresz, hova as utazds terveztetik" (state or continent where the travel is planned....); Amerika
"Voyagean en (allant a)" (traveling to): Amerique
"But du voyage" (purpose of trip): emigration (or immigration)
PDF on file.
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transportation / business / commerce / ocean liner / immigration / Hungary /
2014.021.0035
2014.021
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1914
Notes: Exhibition 2014: Hoboken, Ellis Island, and the Immigrant Experience, 1892-1924 ---- Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2014-06-23