“We tried to be inclusive of all Americans.” “We thought it really, truly reflects the breadth of America as well as the history,” said Ann Barrett, deputy assistant secretary of state for passport services. Photographs by Jim Wilson/ The New York Times SYMBOLS The theme of the new United States passport is ∺merican Icon. Credit. The pages, done in a pink-grey-blue palate, are rife with portraits of Americana ranging from a clipper ship to Mount Rushmore to a long-horn cattle drive. The short, 28-page version of the passport comes with 13 inspirational quotes, including six from United States presidents and one from a Mohawk Thanksgiving speech. The inside cover sports an engraving of the battle scene that inspired “The Star Spangled Banner.” A couple of lines of the anthem, starting with, “O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave,” are scrawled in what the State Department says is Francis Scott Key’s own cursive. The new passport comes with its own name: “American Icon.” It’s hard to think of one that was left out. Given new international standards for post-9/11 high-tech security features, which transform the document into an “E-passport,” the State Department decided it was time for something completely different. The new passport, in the works for about six years, incorporates the first complete redesign since 1993.

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