Passport Applications, 1795-1905
Records: 443,177 · Complete: 100%
NARA M1372. Letters and form applications for U.S. passports. An application may include supporting letters and affidavits from friends and relatives concerning the applicant's citizenship, residence, and character. It also may contain information regarding the applicant's immediate family, date and place of birth, occupation, physical characteristics, and (if foreign) of naturalization. Images are ordered by the surname initial, then by application date, yet not alphabetically beyond the surname initial.
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Herman Melville's Passport Application
Passport Application of Frederick Douglass
Sample
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Source Information
"Passport Applications, 1795-1905" database with images Fold3 (https://www.fold3.com//title/447/passport-applications-1795-1905: accessed February 28, 2021)
- Publication Title
- Passport Applications, 1795-1905
- Total Records
- 443,177 · Complete: 100%
- Content Source
The National Archives
- Publication Number
- M1372
- Record Group
- 59
- Published on Fold3
- 01 Apr 2008
- Last Updated
- 13 May 2011
- Description
- NARA M1372. Images of handwritten letters and application forms for U.S. passports, 1795-1905.