photograph album / Daniel James Mykris, Fenian, 1868

Fenian photograph, one of 45 contained in a photograph album. Photograph, with handwritten description and personal details of a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, or Fenian Brotherhood, arrested c. 1868. Daniel James Mykris (?), single, a soldier in the American Army, age 27. Height 5 foot 6 inches, complexion fresh, hair brown, eyes blue, large nose, regular mouth, oval visage, stout make, has long scar on forehead. Photograph numbered 9. A handwritten note at the back of the album reads ‘These photographs, except number 2 who was arrested in Manchester, were taken while the persons named, many of them it will be seen have held commissions in the U.S Army, were in custody in Ireland during the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, about 1868.;