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Re: Passport Applications



The passport matter raises another question...what documents were needed for
American couples, bringing back orphan children from the UK, say about 1920
or so? This would be after WWI and the dreadful influenza epidemic which
killed millions. Any assistance from the listserve, an amazing font of
knowledge, will be appreciated.

Sharon Lee Butcher
Reference Librarian
AEDC Technical Library
100 Kindel Drive, Suite C212
Arnold AFB, TN  37389-3212
Phone:  931-454-4430
Fax:  931-454-5421
e-mail:  sharon.butcher@arnold.af.mil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer [SMTP:c_crawfo@CULINARY.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 7:59 AM
> To:   ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject:      Re: Passport Applications
>
> See http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/passport.html  for information on where
> passport applications are kept and how to get them. Note that while
> nowdays, we would not even consider the idea of traveling without a
> passport, they were not absolutely required for travel abroad until 1941
> (and come to think of it, it is still possible to cross the border to
> Mexico without showing a passport--I've done it several times).
>
>
>
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>
> Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
> Special Collections Librarian/Archivist
> Culinary Institute of America
> 433 Albany Post Road
> Hyde Park, NY  12538-1499
> (914) 451-1757
> c_crawfo@culinary.edu
>
> >>> Jim McLeod <jamcleod@THEHIGHLANDGROUP.COM> 03/10/00 01:48AM >>>
> For a book I am writing, I am trying to track several individuals  who
> traveled with some frequency to and from Mexico in the 1910's, 20's and
> 30's.  While searching the correspondence files of the Consulate General
> in Mexico City for 1935, one of the target years, I was able to find
> reports written about two of these individuals.  The reports dealt with
> litigation between the two over a business deal gone bad which was
> adjudicated by a Mexican court.  While reading through the volumes of
> correspondence at the National Archive yesterday I happened to notice
> that in the same bound volume as these reports there were several (20 to
> 30) copies of applications by Americans for passportes.  Incuded were
> the filled out applications forms and two pictures of the applicants.
>
> It occurred to me that finding the passport applications of all three
> men might provide some very helpful information to me concerning place
> of residence in the US at the time of application and other biographical
> information on the form plus a picture of what they looked like.  With
> respect to one of these men the picture would be a tremenduous help to
> my research.  Hence, my question is concerning the location of passport
> applications.  Where do these records reside?  Are they centralized?  I
> would assume the records I saw were applications of persons who appeared
> to apply for the passport, or passport renewal in Mexico.  Are passporte
> applications of say 50 years or 60 years ago available to researchers
> and if so where do they reside?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Jim McLeod
> jamcleod@thehighlandgroup.com
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