Envelope

Object | Accession Number: 1997.88.8

Overview

Date: postmark: 1946 November 12
Geography: postmark: Munich (Germany)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of an Anonymous Donor

Language: English
Classification: Information Forms
Category: Correspondence
Object Type: Envelopes (Stationery) (lcsh)
Physical Description: gray paper; recto: left edge sealed with clear adhesive tape marked, "OPENED BY/MIL. CEN.-CIVIL MAILS"; center, hand-written text in black ink, "Leonard Gopsztein/o/o Swirsky/734 E. 54 Str./Brooklyn 3. N.Y./U.S.A."; upper right corner, blue and white adhesive postage stamp, "DEUTSCHE/75/PFENNIG/POST" and black ink cancellation stamp, "MUENCHEN/26/12.11.46-12"; lower left corner, blue ink stamp, "U.S. CIVIL CENSORSHIP/PASSED/20433/GERMANY"; verso: upper edge, hand-written text in black ink, "R. Blechman/St. Ottilien bei Muenchen/UNRRA TEAM 903/D.P. Hospital 2004/A" and illegible inscriptions in graphite.
Dimensions: overall: Height: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Width: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm)
Materials: overall : paper, ink, adhesive, graphite pencil

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