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Looking for pictures of Helen Oppenheimer & Ferdinand C. Weyland before, during and after departing from ship #photographs
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Richard Dassow
Looking for photos of Helen Oppenheimer & Ferdinand C. Weyland before, during and after departing from ship. Even one of each would be fantastic!!!
Ship Manifest attached. Helen Oppenheimer is Line 18 Ferdinand C. Weyland is line 11 Were pictures taken of passengers before boarding for both of them? And pictures taken during Registration after Helen departed from boat? Grosser Kurfurt is ship. Departed from Bremen May 26, 1907 Arrived June 5, 1907 Ferdinand had a passport. How do I find that? Picture on passport? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Blessings Richard Dassow -- Richard F Dassow Milwaukee, Wisconsin RNDASSOW@... 
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Michele Lock
I see looking at the manifest page on Ancestry, that Ferdinand Weyland was a US citizen. He probably did apply for a US passport before leaving the US to go overseas.
Ancestry does have some US passport application images up on their site. I found the image for my great grandfather Harry Olitsky's passport application, from 1908. However, he did not have to provide a photo. I think that photos for passports did not begin until after WW I, though others can comment on that. Helen Oppenheimer was a citizen of Germany. In columns 23-26, her appearence was described - she was 5' 5", fair complexation, brown hair, grey eyes, with no marks of identification (like tattoos, scars, etc.). I don't believe that immigrants had to provide a photo at that time period, not was one taken on the ships or before boarding. This is why they would write down what the person looked like. These descriptions can be very useful, sometime more useful than a photo would be, especially for men. The WW I and II draft cards also describe a person's hair and eye color, and height and build. If someone is described as having blue eyes, and you've got a different document that shows a person with the same name has brown eyes, they are very unlikely to be the same person. -- Michele Lock Lak/Lok/Liak/Lock and Kalon/Kolon in Zagare/Joniskis/Gruzdziai, Lithuania Lak/Lok/Liak/Lock in Plunge/Telsiai in Lithuania Rabinowitz in Papile, Lithuania and Riga, Latvia Trisinsky/Trushinsky/Sturisky and Leybman in Dotnuva, Lithuania Olitsky in Alytus, Suwalki, Poland/Lithuania Gutman/Goodman in Czestochowa, Poland Lavine/Lev/Lew in Trenton, New Jersey and Lida/Vilna gub., Belarus |
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Richard Dassow
Thanks for the info. Still hope that I will be able to find some pictures of them around the time or year of the boat crossing.
blessings
richard
-- Richard F Dassow Milwaukee, Wisconsin RNDASSOW@... |
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Richard Dassow
Were any pictures taken as immigrants went through the registration process?
Richard
-- Richard F Dassow Milwaukee, Wisconsin RNDASSOW@... |
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