photograph album / John Nelson, 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. John Nelson, single, a hatter, late soldier U.S. Army, age 24. Height 5 foot 10 inches, complexion sandy, hair brown, eyes hazel, nose and mouth regular, oval visage, stout make. Photograph numbered 15. 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.;