FamilySearch.org may have better versions of passport photographs than Ancestry.com's database, so check it out. Sometimes these pictures are the only available images of a deceased relative.
In the example below, the image on the right is a passport photo of Eugene Totten Bishop from Ancestry. The application was signed in 1918. On the left is the same image from Family Search, revealing more detail.
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| Eugene Totten Bishop (1876-1936) was my father's great granduncle. He was born in Newark, New Jersey to William Reuben Bishop and Susan Jane Marsh. I have not found a marriage or children for him. He died in Newark and is buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Hillside, New Jersey. |
Eugene resembles a man in a Bishop photo album I acquired from eBay years ago. I do not know if this is my family or not.
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