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Old Jul 3, 2019 | 10:38 pm
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Originally Posted by muji
U.S. passports, until around the early 80s (not sure exactly) were not blue. They were gray.
Google claims they were red from 1926-1941, green from 1941-1976, switching to blue for the bicentennial. They went to green for one year in '93, then back to blue. I had one of the '93-94 greens (Googling, it doesn't appear to be Islamic Green)

EDIT: fwiw, passportinfo.com agrees.

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