While there’s always more to say on the subject, you might be interested in these previous answers:

• When and how did the use of passport become standard globally? by u/ombudsmen

• Did people carry a form of ID in the nineteenth-century? How likely is it that a criminal could remain ‘at large’ without being identified in the ‘Wild West’ or Victorian England? by u/alexistheman

• Since when are are passports or identity cards a thing? by u/PM_ME_HISTORY_FACTS