Julien Bryan's passport and visas
Hands turn the pages of the American passport of Julien Hequembourg Bryan, crowded with visas, among them a Polish transit visa and an Austrian stamp.
The United States passport lies open in two hands at its first page, with the embossed seal and the entries for Julien Hequembourg Bryan, born in Titusville, Pennsylvania, on 23 May 1899. The hands turn to the photograph and then to folding extension leaves dense with visas, consular seals, revenue stamps and signatures; in close view a Polish transit visa issued by the consulate general in New York and an Austrian revenue stamp with the eagle, valid for repeated entry.
Bryan, who had driven an ambulance at Verdun in 1917, spent the 1930s filming abroad and showing the results in lecture halls across America. The Austrian visa belongs to a country that vanished in March 1938; in September 1939 Bryan would be in Warsaw, filming the siege.
