#samuel marshall

Time Travel Tuesday: July 1856 Selections from the Samuel Marshall Passport

Above are selections from the passport of Samuel Marshall, a well-traveled Milwaukee banker from the mid-1800s. This passport can be found in the Samuel Marshall Papers (Milw Mss AQ) at the UWM Archives.

These selections all are dated July 1856 from various central European cities and countries. The first page grants Marshall entry to Berlinfrom Hamburg, dated July 18, 1856. The second is valid for travel to Viennafrom Dresden on July 23, 1856. The third indicates Marshall was traveling from Saxony, dated July 24, 1856. Finally, the last page includes a seal for the Imperial-Royal Police in Vienna and is dated July 29, 1856. 

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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.

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Time Travel Tueaday: Samuel Marshall Passport, 1855

These images show several pages of the passport book from the Samuel Marshall Papers (Milw Mss AQ). The book consists of a certificate and forty-two pages with travel stamps and notations. Marshall was a banker in Milwaukee beginning in the 1840s, and was very well traveled.

The passport certificate, second photo above, was sewn into the book, obscuring some of the description section, and making it particularly delicate to unfold. It also features several stamps and notations, indicating that it was used to document Marshall’s travels along with the rest of the pages in the book.

The third photo includes a description of Marshall so he can be identified by his passport. Included in the description are notes that he had a “prominent” nose and forehead, a “small” mouth, and a “sound” chin. How do you think the written description compares to this undated photograph of Marshall (third, left)?

Visit the UWM Archives to see more of this passport, or stay tuned here for more selections over the summer.