Description:
This listing is for a rare, historically significant World War I original paper, photograph, and ephemera estate archive centered around Reinhold Schulz, a German immigrant residing in South Manchester, Connecticut during the Great War. The centerpiece of this collection is an official United States Department of Justice registration permit (Form No. HH 118065), issued and stamped by the U.S. Marshal on June 30, 1917. This dual-sided historical document features a pristine, stamped identification photograph of Schulz alongside his physical descriptors, employment records at the historic Cheney Brothers Silk Mills, and mandatory wartime travel rules.The lot is accompanied by a highly detailed, original German Imperial Army WWI wedding portrait postcard depicting Schulz\'s niece Marta Budich in Spremberg, Germany marrying a decorated German soldier displaying a classic Prussian Pickelhaube spiked leather helmet and an Iron Cross medal. Rounding out the lot is a full-length studio portrait card of Oswald Reinhold Schulz, a vintage promotional pocket map card for the Hôtel Stadt München in Bremen highlighting the North German Lloyd emigration docks, and modern glossy reference photo prints duplicating two rustic European family village views by photographer E. Klein.This complete family archive offers an extraordinary, deeply personal window into home-front history, transatlantic migration paths, and the German-American immigrant experience during wartime.Specifications:
- Item Type: Original WWI Identification Document and Photographic Family Archive
- Primary Document: US DOJ Registration Permit Card No. HH 118065
- Named Registrant: Reinhold Schulz (Oswald Reinhold Schulz)
- Registration Location: Hartford County, South Manchester, Connecticut
- Associated Workplace: Cheney Bros. Silk Manufacturing Company
- Secondary Items: Original WWI Imperial Prussian Soldier Wedding Postcard, Full-Length Portrait Postcard, Bremen Hotel Street Map Card, and Contemporary Glossy Photo Reproductions
Condition:
The period documents exhibit typical signs of age, handling, and long-term storage wear consistent with century-old paper ephemera. The primary 1917 registration permit remains structurally stable with clean, highly legible handwriting and crisp official U.S. Marshal ink stamps, showing light edge rubbing and natural paper toning. The original period real photo postcards display strong contrast, minor corner softening, typical silvering accents along the borders, and vintage fountain pen ink annotations on their respective reverse sides. The Bremen hotel card shows natural shelf aging and minor handling creases. The modern black and white village scenes are clean, sharp contemporary reprints struck on glossy modern Fujicolor stock and remain free of any cosmetic wear.Items are sold as-is.--These items are part of an estate from a collector and carpenter by trade (descended from other crafts-persons, mostly in Connecticut). Payment required within 48 hours of sale\'s end. All items from a smoke-free environment. Please check out theother itemsfrom this collection!
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