20th and 21th century American Passports

The top passport belongs to Albert Kappes, issued in 2022, while the bottom passport belongs to Christina Kappes and was issued in 2019. These passports were gotten with plans to travel to Canada, Great Britain, Germany and France. The top passport is a newer "E-Passport" and pages containing personal data are made of a different material which is not apparent through sight, only touch.

These two passports are reproduction from Jack Teague’s family. Both belong to his father's girlfriend's father, Robert Lee Davenport. He was a mechanical engineer for General Electric, RCA, Pan American World Airways, and the Bendix Corporation. He spent many years abroad working for these companies, and was primarily based in the Bahamas, Turkey, and Ascension Island. The South American and European trips were primarily for vacation. You can see that his passport indicates he is not allowed to travel to China, Korea, Vietnam, Albania, or Cuba in the top set of photos (during the 60s) and the restricted list changes to Cambodia, Cuba, North Korea, North Vietnam, and South Vietnam in the bottom set of photos (during the 70s).

Maybe it's worth pointing out that the first passport says the maximum lifespan of a passport is five years (if renewed), whereas modern American passports are valid for ten years. And on the second passport, every set of instructions is written in English and French (also in modern passports but used more extensively here) because the International Civil Aviation Organization published a set of standards in the 60s that passports should include multiple foreign languages to make them more easily understood around the world. This went into effect in the US in 1976 with the Bicentennial passport, which Robert Davenport's passport is an example of. Modern passports use English, French, and Spanish.