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Passport Applications on Microfilm

Table of Contents

• Registers and Indexes for Passport Applications, 1810 - 1906. NARA microfilm publication M1371, (13 rolls).
  
  
• Passport Applications, 1795-1905. NARA microfilm publication M1372, (694 rolls).
  
  
• Index to Passport Applications, 1850-52, 1860-80, 1881, 1906-1923. NARA microfilm publication M1848, (61 rolls).
  
  
• Passport Applications, Jan. 2, 1906 - Mar. 31, 1925. NARA microfilm publication M1490, (2,740 rolls).
  
  
• Emergency Passport Applications, (Passports Issued Abroad), 1877-1907. NARA microfilm publication M1834, (56 rolls).
  
  

Registers and Indexes for Passport Applications, 1810 - 1906.
NARA microfilm publication M1371. 13 rolls.

Rolls 1-9 reproduce registers and indexes for passport applications, December 21, 1810-October 7, 1871, February 22, 1830-November 15, 1831, and November 14, 1834-February 1906. The usual register or index entry shows the date and number (where applicable) of the application, the name of the applicant, and (for 1834-1849) the applicant's age and physical characteristics. Some of the register or index volumes have overlapping dates, and some entries appear in more than one volume. A special register covers Civil War passports, 1861-1865. In some volumes the entries are arranged chronologically; in others, alphabetically by the first three letters of the applicant's surname and thereunder chronologically.

Rolls 10 and 11 reproduce indexes to emergency passport applications, 1874-1906. Emergency passports were issued to US citizens by US consular and diplomatic officers abroad. The entries in each index volume show the date and number of each application as well as the location of the US diplomatic or consular post that received it; the entries are arranged alphabetically by surname of applicant.

Roll 12 reproduces indexes to special passport applications, 1829-1894. Special passports were issued to US diplomatic and consular officers, military attaches, secretaries of legations, and other government officers and their families. Each index entry shows the name of an applicant, the date of application, and the volume and page numbers where the application can be found. The entries are arranged alphabetically by surname of applicant.

Roll 13 reproduces, on the first part of the roll, an index to the passport applications received by the New York Passport Office, August 24, 1861-February 24, 1862. Each index entry shows the date, name of applicant, and application or passport number. The entries are arranged alphabetically by first letter of applicant's surname and thereunder chronologically.

The remainder of roll 13 reproduces a volume containing registers of miscellaneous special passports, 1835-1869. These are (1) a register of special passports issued at New York, 1862-1869, each entry showing the name and address of the recipient, the passport number, the fee paid, and the date of payment; (2) a register of "Special Passports Granted By John Forsyth, Secretary of State," and by successor Secretaries of State, 1836-1864, showing the name and destination of the passport bearer and the number and date of the passport; (3) a register of "Special Courier Passports," 1865-1869; (4) "Passport Account of J.B. Nones," which is a record of fees received for passports, 1867; and (5) "Passport Account of George F. Baker," 1864-1869. Each section of the volume is arranged chronologically.

Emergency Passport Applications, (Passports Issued Abroad), 1877-1907.
NARA microfilm publication M1834. 56 rolls.

These applications for or renewals of passports were made at US Foreign Service posts abroad. They are arranged chronologically and thereunder by the name of the post. The amount and quality of documentation varies from a signed copy of the oath of allegiance, to a list of persons to whom passports were issued, to a copy of the petition for a passport.