Category:United States passport photos

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Passport photos, while taken by a third party, are taken to government specifications and may not meet the "threshold of originality" that would allow a copyright in the name of the person operating the shutter or the company providing the service. Or they may. Commons:Deletion requests/File:Janisjoplin.png was deleted even though it was a US passport photo. In 2019, Kinga Kijak-Markiewicz wrote: "passport photos are not subject to copyright."[1]. However in 2020, this sentence was removed.[2]

United States Passport Applications from 1795 to 1925 have been made available by the National Archives and Records Administration. Passport photos were required starting in 1914 with World War I.

Media in category "United States passport photos"

The following 135 files are in this category, out of 135 total.