Photos
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Hendrik van Messel's persoonskaart.
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Hendrik van Messel's U.S. draft registration card dated 12 September 1918. He listed "clerk" as his occupation and A. van Wezel as his employer and nearest relative.
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Hendrik van Messel's declaration of intention to become a naturalized American citizen, dated December 1921. He listed his address as 545 West End Avenue, New York City. Van Messel returned to the Netherlands soon after his naturalization and married Hester Eijl in 1922. They traveled back to the US, where they had two children before divorcing in 1932.
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Hendrik's signature c. 1922.
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Notice of Hendrik's death in Amsterdam on 22 February 1941, listed in Algemeen Handelsblad by his brother, Maurits Charles van Messel.
