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  • Collection: Mummies

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

AncientCuriosity_0001.jpg
Adverisement for the exhibition of the mummy in Newark, N.J.

Bostonmuseumad3.jpg
Snippet of advertising for the mummies at the Boston Museum.

PadiStereotype .jpg
Advertisement for the exhibition of Padihershes in Philadelphia.

Barnum program.jpg
List of exhibits, including mummies.

Dwights small.jpg
Reworked picture of mummy and coffins--altered to fit landscape mode.

Barnum royal mummy.jpg
Barnum hyping up his mummy.

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

Turner's mummy ad.jpg
Woodcut of the mummy brought into America by Captain Larkin Turner.

Peregrine mummy 1.jpg
Outer coffin of an unidentified male mummy which arrived aboard the brig Peregrine in Boston in 1824.

Peregrine mummy 2.jpg
Inner coffin of an unidentified female mummy, which arrived on the brig Peregrine in 1824.

Feb9ChildAtHomeColor9.jpg
Unidentified mummy, in colored coffin.

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

Turner's mummy.jpg
Woodblock of Djedkhonsuiuesankh (Mummy)

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Mummies at the British Museum.

Metal Padi ouside.jpg
Intaglio print of the lid of the outer coffin of Padihershef.

Blockhead 1.jpg
Variant exhibition brochure for the Blockhead mummy. One of a pai of mummies brought by Henry Barclay and purchased by Rubens Peale.

Blockhead adv.jpg
Outer coffin of one of a pair of mummies brought by Henry Barclay and purchased by Rubens Peale.

Met fair1 (4).jpg
"Mummy wheat" or "Egyptian wheat"

Padi coffin face.jpg
The face of the inner coffin of the mummy Padihershef. Modern photograph taken in the Ether Dome at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Phrenology head 1.jpg
Head of a female mummy in the Phrenological Museum of New York.

Gliddon broadside.jpg
The broadside Gliddon issues in Boston for his lecture series and for the mummy unwrappings.

Boston mummy head.jpg
This is the head of the mummy Gliddon unwrapped in Boston.

Crania aegyptiaca.jpg
Drawings of Egyptian mummy skulls in the collection of Samuel George Morton.

Catalogue Barnum mummy.jpg
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.

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

Lee's mummy.jpg
Mummy brought into New York City in 1824 by Captain Larkin Thorndike Lee.

mummy cartoon.jpg
Advertising cut (type) for sale by A.N. Kellogg Newspaper Co.

Padi inner coffin2.jpg
Lid of the inner coffin of Padihershef, at the Ether Dome, Massachusetts General Hospital.

Phrenology head 2.jpg
Male mummy head in the collection of the Phrenological Museum of New York.

Boylston mummy 3.jpg
Masthead of the first newspaper to publish the arrival of Ward Nicholas Boylston's mummy.

Barnummummies4.jpg
Two wrapped mummies on display with Barnum's circus at Watertown, Conn. (Adult & child?)

Family magazine.jpg
Unidentified mummy and its case.

Youth's magazine.jpg
Unidentified mummy and its coffin.

Barnummummyad.jpg
Illustrations of two coffins on exhibition with Barnum's circus.

Drawing of Barnum mummy.jpg
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.

Chicago skull.jpg
Skull collected by Joseph Dorfeuille for the Western Museum.

Egypt skulls.jpg
Ethnological description of Egyptian mummy skulls.

Blockhead1.jpg
Artidle showing venues for the exhibition of the "Blockhead Mummy."

AssigneeSale_0001.jpg
Notice of the sale, including a mummy.

Padiouter2.jpg
Outer coffin in new display after conservation at the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum.

Padihersef.jpg
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.

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

Metal Padi inside.jpg
Intaglio print of the lid of the outer coffin of Padihershef

ExtraordinaryCuriosities_0001.jpg
Notes by Samuel George Morton on the types of mankind and the subject of race.

Mummy book cover.jpg
A history of Egyptian mummies as artifacts in 19th century America.

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

Mormon mummy head.jpg
The only known illustration of one of the mummies which Michael Chandler had.

AbbottCatalogue_0002.jpg
Some of the mummies and antiquities in the Abbott Collection.

TOM title.JPG
19th century ethnological study of monogenism and polygenism. To this date, this book has been castigated as being one of the most racist books ever published

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

Gliddonhandbillverso (3).jpg
Handwritten anonymous note about the unwrapping of Got-Mut-As-Anch.
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