Passports and Identification

These items include passports and other types of identification used by diplomats in their daily work.

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    Passport issued to David Hinckley

    Rufus King, then American minister to Great Britain, issued this 1798 passport to David Hinckley, a wealthy Boston merchant who traveled frequently to London on business. It is the oldest in the museum’s collection and also one of the more intriguing. Corsairs of the Barbary states had captured David Hinckley in the…