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My Mug Shot
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Man, why do passport photos need to be so flat. :-(
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passport photos, old (1996, age 16) and new (2008, age 28)
1999
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Thirty, Passport photo ID
I needed it for a job.
I was trying NOT to look like a terrorist with my blonde hair cut and cheesy moustache.
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New Passport Photo
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This it the picture I sent to the Department of State for my new passport.
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Charles passport photo 2006
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According to the new Dutch rules... no smile and the chin at a certain place on the photo.
Costco Passport Photo Department
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All My Passport Photos
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My twenties, thirties, and forties.
Anand for a passport photo
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Mother's Wartime Passport - 1941
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Mother's Wartime Passport - 1941
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INTRODUCTION
My mother is 29 in this photo. She's holding my late brother, James, who is almost a year old.
I came across several of my late mother's canceled passports recently. This is the most interesting one because of when and where it was issued: Rio de Janeiro, December 15, 1941.
My parents were living in Rio when Pearl Harbor was attacked. My father was a reporter for United Press, stationed in Rio.
I am guessing the declarations of war following Pearl Harbor promoted Mother to travel to the States with my brother ASAP in case subsequent wartime developments made travel to and from South America more difficult.
WARTIME TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS
The passport has several interesting restrictions that reflect the unstable diplomatic and military situation in the late 30s and early 40s.
The first restriction, on Page 6, says:
"This passport is not valid for travel to or in any foreign state for the purpose of entering or serving in the armed forces of such a state."
The text is in red ink. It looks like it was part of the original passport rather than a stamp added after the passport was printed.
Until Pearl Harbor, the U.S. was officially neutral as to the conflicts in Europe and elsewhere in the world. Despite America's neutrality, some U.S. citizens were volunteering to fight in other countries, Spain and Great Britain being two examples. The restriction quoted above was meant to deter volunteer soldiers and airmen.
(I understand Americans who wanted to fly against the Germans in the Battle of Britain in 1940 went to Canada first, and then to Great Britain. U.S. authorities at the Canadian border practically gave Americans wishing to enter into Canada the third degree in an attempt to stop would-be military volunteers, though I suspect single young men in their late teens and early twenties were probably singled out for scrutiny.)
The next restriction, which is stamped into the passport on Page 7 and takes up half a page, says the following in red capital letters:
"This passport is not valid for travel in any country outside the Western Hemisphere."
The Western Hemisphere includes all the territory from 0 degrees latitude, which runs through Greenwich (London) in the UK, westward to 180 degrees latitude, which is the international dateline somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.
Basically, the Western Hemisphere is the Americas, small bits of Western Europe, bits of Russia, and various islands in the Pacific.
As a practical matter, this restriction prevented travel to the Axis countries - Germany, Italy and Japan - and occupied countries in Europe and Asia.
This restriction was stamped into the passport before the passport was issued in December, 1941. I am assuming the restriction was put in place only after Pearl Harbor, though it's conceivable worsening diplomatic and military conditions in Europe and the Far East caused the State Department to prohibit travel to the Axis countries before the actual outbreak of war. I'm sure someone somewhere would know.
The final restriction appears in Page 11 of the passport. It was stamped into the passport when Mother renewed it in the U.S. in May, 1942, before returning to Brazil.
The renewal stamp says the passport "is not valid for travel in any country except:"
Below that, the clerk who issued the passport typed: "Brazil - Residence. Necessary countries en route."
What can we learn from all this? During a world war, the American government will severely limit civilian travel to foreign countries. That's understandable.
THE JOURNEY HOME AND BACK
The passport also has interesting visas and other stamps that mark the waypoints on Mother's journey to the US and back.
The dates of Mother's various departures and arrivals along her route are so close together they indicate she traveled by air, probably via Pan American Airways. I'd be interested whether Pan Am used a flying boat or a DC-3 on the Rio - Miami route. Pan Am had both types of aircraft in service on that route in 1941.
December 18, 1941: Permit to Exit Brazil, issued by the Brazilian Immigration Service in Rio, good for three months.
December 19, 1941: Visa for Trinidad in transit to the United States of America, issued by British Passport Control, Rio, good for single journey only."
December 27, 1941: Exit stamp, Marine and Air Police, Rio de Janeiro.
December 28, 1941: Entry permit, Trinidad "Permitted to land in TRINIDAD during Plane's stay in Port and to proceed to from said Plane.
December 29, 1941: U.S. Immigration Service, Miami, Florida.
Finally, there are a series of stamps marking the steps on Mother's return to Brazil in 1942.
May 29, 1942: Visa valid for single journey to Trinidad in transit, good for one month, issued by the British Vice Consulate in Miami, Florida.
May 30, 1942: Entry permit for Brazil as a permanent resident, Brazilian Consulate in Miami.
June 2, 1942: Inspection stamp, Marine and Air Police, Belem, Brazil; Federal Immigration Service, Belem, Brazil.
June 3, 1942: Inspection stamp, Marine and Air Police, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Immigration stamp, Rio de Janeiro.
ps: My mother's first name, as you can see on the photo, was Helen. I have photoshopped her middle and last names out of the image.
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From Passport Canada: "Applicant must show a neutral facial expression (no smiling, mouth closed) and look straight at the camera... Eyes must be open and clearly visible... Photos must show the child’s head and shoulders only. Parent’s or child’s hands must not appear in the photo. Passport Canada recognizes the difficulty in obtaining a neutral expression of a newborn and will allow for some tolerance in this regard."
Bugger.
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From Passport Canada: "Applicant must show a neutral facial expression (no smiling, mouth closed) and look straight at the camera... Eyes must be open and clearly visible... Photos must show the child’s head and shoulders only. Parent’s or child’s hands must not appear in the photo. Passport Canada recognizes the difficulty in obtaining a neutral expression of a newborn and will allow for some tolerance in this regard."
Bugger.
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New Passport
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Here's my new picture on my new passport. They cropped it a lot, but I guess it's still OK.
* um... welcome digg users. For those who are wondering, the pincer-like "beard" is not actually a beard, but is in fact a set of pincers.
** reddit users: you guys are cool.
Passport photo (1992)
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New photo affixed to my old passport when I was 18. Taken (and, I think, printed) by me - I wonder in how many ways that photo wouldn't be acceptable for a passport issued today?
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We both look so Russian gangster on our passports.... Martyn and Eleni? Dmitri and Svetlana more like.
Photos from January 2009 trip to Havana, Cuba with Eleni
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So many requirements for a passport photo, ostensibly to insure that no distinguishing characteristics are obscured.
Yet they don't seem particularly worried that all of a baby's distinguishing characteristics change from one month to the next.
Not The Passport Photo
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This person wanted me to take a photo of their passport before they had to renew it and get a new photo of them not smiling.
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Written on the back of this photo:
PASSPORT PICTURE
1926
AGE 22
I initially thought my grandfather may have added his signature at the top of the photo in later years for some reason, since the blue ink is so well-preserved. Now, however, I think he probably signed it in 1926 before his first use of the passport. His cursive rendering of his name at the beginning of the journal pages matches this one, as opposed to his writing of his name years later on the inside cover page as part of his expository labeling of the little book. I'm certainly not a handwriting expert, but to my eye the (presumably) earlier signature on this photo looks a bit slower and more careful. His later script looks more fluid and assured, the lower-case letters shallowly formed, consistent with the manner of one who had been composing all his personal and professional documents by hand for decades (as he would his entire life, being of a generation of men who were not expected to type).
I do not have the entire passport, only this photo from it. I decided not to retouch the scratches, staple holes, asymmetry and such, but rather preserve the wear and tear that likely was sustained while the passport was in use.
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Had my passport photos done today. I was a little upset that I had to take my glasses off for them but happy that I retain some 1920s rapist look. I look well 'ard. Those are they eyes of a puppy murderer for sure.
