Envelope

Object | Accession Number: 1997.88.3

Overview

Date: postmark: 1938 April 20
Geography: postmark: Braunau am Inn (Austria)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of an Anonymous Donor

Language: German English
Classification: Information Forms
Category: Correspondence
Object Type: Envelopes (Stationery) (lcsh)
Physical Description: White paper; recto: upper half bears six adhesive postage stamps; center bears three black ink stamps each with image of building and two swastikas, "BRAUNAU AM INN/20. APRIL 1938/DES FUEHRERS GEBURTSTAG"; lower left corner, blue adhesive airmail stamp; lower right corner, black ink stamp, "Karl Hennig/Hamburg 39"
Dimensions: overall: Height: 4.625 inches (11.748 cm) | Width: 7.125 inches (18.098 cm)
Materials: overall : paper, ink, adhesive, graphite pencil
Inscription: recto: lower edge, in pencil, "A. C32-34 G#485 G#B118 Hitler's 49th Birthday/occupied Austria"; verso: upper right corner, circled number, "1"

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The envelope was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1997 by an anonymous donor.