Black and white 8 by 10 press photograph of Jeff Dunham, identified by printed caption along the vertical edge as Jeff Dunham, depicted in close portrait alongside multiple dummy figures including what appears to be an early version of one of his signature characters. The image captures Dunham at an earlier stage of his career before his rise to widespread television and comedy fame. Jeff Dunham became one of the most commercially successful ventriloquists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, achieving record-breaking comedy special viewership and arena touring. Early career press photographs of Dunham are of particular interest to collectors of ventriloquism ephemera and document his performing style and dummy characters prior to his mainstream breakthrough.