Cabinet card of William Charles Macready, actor and theatre manager. Photographed by H.N. King, ‘photographer to the Queen’, 42A Milsom Street, Bath. Written on the verso: ‘Mr Macready’.

Macready, William Charles, 1793-1873

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Cabinet card of an unidentified man wearing a dark suit and bow tie. On the verso of the photograph is a map showing the village of Middle Burnham and the Bristol and Exeter Railway. Written on the verso: ‘?’.

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Cabinet card of Denis Dowling Mulcahy, doctor, journalist and member of the Fenian Brotherhood. Photographed by the verso: ‘like Denis Mulcahy’, and: ‘Eileen’.

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Cabinet card of an unidentified woman. Photographed by J. Tourtin Ainé, 32 Rue Louis le Grand, Paris. Written on the verso: ‘?’ and an illegible French name?

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Cabinet card of the Young Irelanders John Martin, John Mitchel, and Reverend John Kenyon, all three sitting around a table. By Lesage, ‘artists repository’, 40 Lower Sackville Street, Dublin. Written on the recto: ‘Martin, Mitchell Rev J. Kenyon’, and on the verso: ‘Martin Mitche

Kenyon, John, 1812-1869 | Martin, John, 1812-1875 | Mitchel, John, 1815-1875

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Souvenir cabinet card with individual oval photographs of the first five bishops of the diocese of Versailles, 1802-1877: Monseigneur Louis Charrier de La Roche, 1802-1827, Monseigneur Jean-Francois-Étienne Borderies 1827-1832, Monseigneur Louis-Marie-Edmond Blanquart de Bailleul

Charrier de La Roche, Louis, 1738-1827 | Catholic Church. Diocese of Versailles (France)--Clergy

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Cabinet card (black and white) of Edme Armand Gaston duc d’Audiffret-Pasquier (1823-1905), French Royalist politician and member of the Académie française. Photographed by Anatole Pougnet, 61 Boulevard Sébastopol, Paris. Undated.

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Cabinet card (black and white) of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, and Conservative Party Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Undated.

Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881

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Cabinet card (black and white) of Edward Duffy (Éadbhard Ó Dufaigh, 1840-1868), member of the Fenian Brotherhood and James Stephens' deputy in Ireland from 1866 until Duffy’s death in 1868. Undated.

Ó Dufaigh, Éadbhard, 1840-1868

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Cabinet card (black and white) from an engraving of the poet, Lord George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron.Undated.

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824

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Cabinet card with a photograph of an unattributed engraving of Sher Ali, Amir of Afghanistan. Sher Ali was Khan of Afghanistan between 1863-1866 and 1868-1879 following the Second Anglo-Afghan War.

Sher Ali Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, 1825-1879

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Cabinet card (black and white) of the French royal, Henri-Charles-Ferdinand-Marie-Dieudonné, comte de Chambord (Henri, Count of Chambord, disputed King of France 2-9 August 1830 as Henry V). Undated.

Chambord, Henri-Charles-Ferdinand-Marie-Dieudonné d’Artois, comte de, 1820-1883

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