Early American Mummymania

Egyptian mummies.

Mummies at the British Museum.

"Everyday Egyptian Coffin"

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

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.

Exhibition of "mummy wheat"

"Mummy wheat" or "Egyptian wheat"

Races of men.

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

Djedkhonsuiuesankh (Mummy)

Woodblock of Djedkhonsuiuesankh (Mummy)

Colored illustration of an unidentified mummy.

Unidentified mummy, in colored coffin.

Advertisment for circus attractions, including mummies.

List of exhibits, including mummies.

Barnum's description of one of his mummies.

Barnum hyping up his mummy.

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.

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.

Skull from the Morton Collection.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.