Big Noses and Common Faces: U.S. Passports
By mrayback • Jul 9th, 2008 • Category: How-tosMy great-great-grandfather has a medium mouth. At least, that’s what some Joe Schmoe wrote on his passport application in 1892. Actually, that Joe Schmoe’s name is Horatio Pickett, and he also said my grandfather had a large nose. His description for my great-great-grandfather’s face? Common. C’mon, Horatio. Now you’re just asking for it.
I found all this in the U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 collection on Ancestry.com.