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Time Travel Tuesday:  Late 1855, Selections from the Samuel Marshall Passport

Above are selections of pages from the passport of Samuel Marshall, a Milwaukee banker from the mid-1800s, chronicling some of his travels through late 1855. This passport can be found in the Samuel Marshall Papers (Milw Mss AQ) at the UWM Archives.

The first page, from November 15, 1855, grants Marshall entry to Turkey in the Ottoman Empire. The seal of the second cites the King of Prussia, dated November 16, 1855. The third is good for entry to Constantinople, from November 19, 1855. Finally, while I can’t read the fourth page, it is presumably from the same trip.

Visit the UWM Archives to see more of this passport, or stay tuned here for more selections over the summer.  Check out our “Samuel Marshall” tag to see more!