Context (Field collection)
Purchased at the Petofi Csarnok Flea Market, Budapest in September of 2003.
Event Date 9/2003
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Production / use)
The book is red (as opposed to the blue book for unions, but similar to the red book of the Communist Youth League). On the first paper page of the slogan 'Proletarians of the World Unite!' is featured. Payment stamps seem to indicate that the individual began their membership in June of 1954, The last payment stamp is from October 1956, the month of the Hungarian Counter/Revolution. NOTE: 3 loose stamps: November 1955, July 1956, October 1956.
Event Date 1/6/2004
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Red Party Book, titled MAGYAR DOLGOZOK PARTJA or Hungarian Workers Party.
Event Date 1/6/2004
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
This object contains or includes personal information which has been omitted from the record in compliance with GDPR regulations.
Event Date 10/5/2023
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

Description (Physical description)
A small, cloth-bound membership book for the Hungarian Worker's Party. It is rectangular, with a dark red cover , and cream-coloured pages faintly printed with a pale blue pattern. The first page contains spaces for the owner's personal details, which have been filled out in purple ink, and is stamped with their membership number. The middle pages each have a year printed at the top (a double-page spread per year), from 1953-1958. Each double page contains a table with the months written on; January-June on the first page, July-December on the second. Many of the months have paper stamps glued in next to them, likely indicating that dues have been paid that month. Three of these stamps have fallen out (see 2003.135 D.1-3). The back pages of the book contain spaces to fill in more information; however, they have all been left blank.
Event Date 10/5/2023
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

Context (Found together / assemblage)
2003.135 A is a booklet, B and C are certificates, and D is a group of stamps (from November 1955, July 1956, and October 1956) that fell out of A. They are all from the same person so are all associated with each other; however, they have been given separate records.
Event Date 10/5/2023
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff