Early American Mummymania

Allamistakeo.

Woodcut of the mummy Allamistakeo awakening.

Egyptian mummies.

Mummies at the British Museum.

Postcard view of the mills in Gardiner, Maine.

Postcard showing the rear view of the paper mills in Gardiner, Maine.

Stanwood & Towar Mill in Gardiner, Maine.

Postcard of Stanwood & Towar Mill, later Hollingsworth & Whitney.

View of S.D. Warren & Co, in Westbrook.

Postcard view of Cumberland Mills.

The New Dam at Great Falls.

Postcard view of the new dam at Great Falls, built by S.D. Warren Co.

Postcard view of Gardiner, Maine.

Postcard view of Gardiner, Maine.

"Everyday Egyptian Coffin"

An image of an "everyday" coffin which is similar to the one shown in the Barnum advertisement.

Peale's New York Museum

Watercolor of Peale's New York Museum.

Gadsby's Hotel

Gadsby's Hotel (Also known as the National Hotel) where Turner's mummy was exhibited.

Advertisement for exhibition of a mummy at Scudder's museum.

Scudder's American Museum.

Padihershef's outer coffin trough.

Intaglio print of the lid of the outer coffin of Padihershef

S.J. Wolfe's book.

A history of Egyptian mummies as artifacts in 19th century America.

Bird's eye view of New Orleans.

Lithographed bird's eye view of the city of New Orleans.

An unidentified mummy on exhibition at the Metropolitan Fair.

An unidentified mummy which was exhibited at the Metropolitan Fair.

Egyptian antiquities.

Unidentified Egyptian antiquities exhibited at the fair.

Exhibition of "mummy wheat"

"Mummy wheat" or "Egyptian wheat"

Samuel George Morton.

Portrat of Morton, one of the foremost ethnologists of his day.

Lyceum, New Orleans.

Location of George Gliddon's final mummy unwrappings. The Lyceum was located on the second floor of the City Hall for the Second District. Later known as Gallier Hall.

Races of men.

Notes by Samuel George Morton on the types of mankind and the subject of race.

Scudder's Museum.

Blue tranfer printed Staffordshire pottery with images of Scudder's Museum. Djedkhonsuiuesankh (Mummy) was exhibited here.

Map of the travels of the "Mormon mummies."

Map of the documented travels of the "Mormon mummies."

Edgar Allen Poe.

Dagguereotype of Poe.

Peale's Museum (The Arcade, Baltimore)

View of Ruben Peale's Baltimore museum.

Description of one of the mummies from the Chandler collection.

Description of one of the Chandler mummies.

Muhammad Ali Pasha.

The Pasha of Egypt.

Djedkhonsuiuesankh (Mummy)

Woodblock of Djedkhonsuiuesankh (Mummy)

Franklin Building, Salem, Mass.

Djedkhonsuiuesankh (Mummy) was exhibited here. It burned in 1860.

Scudder's American Museum.

Scudder's American Museum. Djedkhonsuiuesankh (Mummy) was exhibited here.

Congress Springs.

View of the Spring House.

Barnum's American Museum,

View of Broadway showing Barnum's American Museum.

Castle Garden.

View of Castle Garden, where the autopsy of Lee's mummy was carried out.

Colored illustration of an unidentified mummy.

Unidentified mummy, in colored coffin.

Documented travels of Capt. Lee's mummy.

Map of the documented exhibitions of Capt. Lee's mummy.

Spreading the news of Boylston's mummy.

Map showing the dissemination of the news of Boylston's mummy over a six-week period.

Boylston's mummy at the American Antiquarian Society.

Manuscript account of Boylston's gift of mummy relics, August 1820.

Boylston's mummy at the American Antiquarian Society.

Manuscript account of Boylston's gift of mummy relics to the AAS in November 1819.

Advertisment for circus attractions, including mummies.

List of exhibits, including mummies.

Map showing some of the places that the mummies from the brig Peregrine were exhibited.

Map of the documented travels of the mummies from the brig Peregrine.

Barnum's description of one of his mummies.

Barnum hyping up his mummy.

Burning the mummy.

The dramatic event which unleashes the mummy's curse.

Advertisement for the mummies at the Boston Museum, which had come in on the brig Peregrine.

Snippet of advertising for the mummies at the Boston Museum.

Hand-colored map of Norwich, Conn.

Hand colored map of Norwich which was issued inside the Norwich Jubilee book.

Fine binding for the Norwich Jubilee book.

Gold-stamped and gold-tooled tan morocco leather binding for the deluxe edition of the Norwich Jubilee book.

Publisher's cloth binding for the Norwich Jubilee book.

One of two bindings for the Norwich Jubilee book. This was the less expensive of the two.

Cutting the paper to size.

Cutting the paper from the big rolls was another job that women could do in the papermills.

Finishing the paper.

Papermaking--Connecticut--Norwich.

Fourdrinier machines.

Fourdrinier machines took the raw materials and converted them to basic paper.

Running the slurry into the machines.

Putting the slurry from the tank into the papermaking machinery.

Rag pulp grinding tanks

The pulp is ground to make a slurry before going into the machines.

Beating rags to a pulp (literally)

Rags were washed again and beaten to break down the pieces into a pulp.

Steam boiler for boiling rags.

Rags were boiled to complete the cleaning process.

Rag cutting.

Rags being cut into small pieces, and debris being removed.

Cumberland Mills, Westbrook, Maine.

S.D. Warren imported mummy rags as a source for fiber in his Cumberland Mills.

Cumberland Mills, Westbrook, Maine.

Mummy rags were stored here and shipped to S.D. Warren Company's other mills in Maine.

Cumberland Mills, Westbrook, Maine.

View of the falls and mill buildings on the Presumpscott River.

Some of the mummies and mummy parts in the Abbott Collection.

Some of the mummies and antiquities in the Abbott Collection.

Trough of the outer coffin of Padihershef

Trough or the outer coffin of Padihershef after conservation and restoration.

Modern view of the dam,falls and mill buildings on the Presumpscott River in Westbrook, Maine.

View of the falls, dam and remaining mill buildings of the S.D. Warren Company, that made paper from mummy wrappings in Westbrook, Maine.

Skull from the Morton Collection.

The only known illustration of one of the mummies which Michael Chandler had.

The Boston Museum.

Exterior view of the Boston Museum, owned by Moses Kimball.

Isaiah Deck's proposal to use mummy wrappings as a source of materials for American paper mills.

Deck's observations and calculations on the amount of mummy wrappings available, and a proposal to use these as a source for making paper.

Scrap of mummy wrappings from the mummy of Got-Mut-As-Anch.

Scraps of the linen wrappings of Got-Mut-As-Anch, one of the mummies Gliddon upnwrapped in Philadelphia. The collector is unknown.

Verso of the handbill from the exhibition in Philadelphia.

Handwritten anonymous note about the unwrapping of Got-Mut-As-Anch.

Inner and outer coffins of Got-Mus-As-Anch.

Coffins of Got-Mut-As-Anch, one of the mummies Gliddon unwrapped in Philadelphia.

Mummy from Barnum's Museum.

Drawing of an unidentified mummy in Barnum's American Museum. This may be a generic drawing as it does not match the images in the museum catalogue.

Image and description of a mummy from Barnum's American Museum catalogue.

Image and description of a mummy in Barnum's museum. Does not match the image in the view of the Sixth Saloon or the image from Sights and wonders in New York.

Lid of Padihershef's inner coffin.

Lid of the inner coffin of Padihershef, at the Ether Dome, Massachusetts General Hospital.

Map of the travels of the "Blockhead mummy."

Map of some of the places in which the "Blockhead Mummy" was exhibited.

Map of the travels of Capt. Larkin Turner's mummy.

Map showing the places where Capt. Turner's mummy was exhibited.

Map of the travels of Padihershef.

Map of all the locations where Padihershef was exhibited.

Isaac Augustus Stanwood.

Isaac Augustus Stanwood, partner of William Towar. They made mummy paper at their mill in Gardiner, Maine.

Coffin of one of the two "Peregrine mummies."

Inner coffin of an unidentified female mummy, which arrived on the brig Peregrine in 1824.

Coffin of one of the two "Peregrine mummies."

Outer coffin of an unidentified male mummy which arrived aboard the brig Peregrine in Boston in 1824.

Broadside advertisement for the three mummies on display at Greenwood's Museum.

Advertisement for display of the two mummies from the Peregrine and Larkin Turner's mummy.

Great Falls Dam.

Modern view of the Great Falls Dam, all that is left of the paper mill that it served.

Dam at Stanwood and Towar Mill in Gardiner, Maine.

Originally the Cobbossee Mill, then Stanwood & Tower, then Hollingsworth & Whitney. Mummy paper was made at this mill, and it is the only mummy paper mill still standing in Gardiner, Maine.

Outer coffin of Padihershef as currently displayed.

Outer coffin in new display after conservation at the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum.

Cover and trough of Padisherf's outer coffin.

Padihershef's outer coffin as it would have been displayed.

Padihershef, inner coffin trough and original wooden cases.

Padhershef in the original wood and glass cases made by Henry Williams.

Face of the mummy Padihershef.

The face of Padihershef as revealed by an autopsy by John Collins Warren and others.

Padihershef, as originally displayed.

The mummy of Padihershef as he was displayed in the trough of his innermost coffin at the Ether Dome, Massachusetts General Hospital. The glass case is the original, made by Henry Williams.