[Michael Cunningham, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

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1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 98 x 63 mm (carte de visite format)

About this photograph

This carte de visite shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of Michael Cunningham, photographed by Prescott & White in 1865. The albumen print is mounted on card in the standard carte de visite format.

No further information about Michael Cunningham is available in the archive record. The photograph's date places it during the final months of the American Civil War, but nothing is known about Cunningham's circumstances, occupation, or reason for sitting for this portrait. The photographers Prescott & White are named, but no details about their studio are recorded.

Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.

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