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Mummy and its case.
Unidentified mummy and its case.
Mummy and its case.
Unidentified mummy and its coffin.
Mummy skull in the collection of the Chicago Museum.
Skull collected by Joseph Dorfeuille for the Western Museum.
Engraved view of Padihershef's outer coffin
Intaglio print of the lid of the outer coffin of Padihershef.
Advertising woodcut for Padihershef.
Advertisement for the exhibition of Padihershes in Philadelphia.
Captain Larkin Turner's mummy.
Woodcut of the mummy brought into America by Captain Larkin Turner.
Exhibition brochure for the "Blockhead mummy."
Variant exhibition brochure for the Blockhead mummy. One of a pai of mummies brought by Henry Barclay and purchased by Rubens Peale.
Illustrations of Samuel George Morton's Egyptian mummy skulls.
Drawings of Egyptian mummy skulls in the collection of Samuel George Morton.
Gliddon's proposal to unwrap a mummy at Tremont Temple in Boston
The broadside Gliddon issues in Boston for his lecture series and for the mummy unwrappings.
Title page of "Types of Mankind."
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
Female mummy head at the Phrenological Institute
Head of a female mummy in the Phrenological Museum of New York.
Mummies at the circus.
Two wrapped mummies on display with Barnum's circus at Watertown, Conn. (Adult & child?)
Exhibition brochure for the "Blockhead mummy."
Outer coffin of one of a pair of mummies brought by Henry Barclay and purchased by Rubens Peale.
Masthead of the Columbian centinel.
Masthead of the first newspaper to publish the arrival of Ward Nicholas Boylston's mummy.
Late 19th century woodcut of two men looking at a mummy.
Advertising cut (type) for sale by A.N. Kellogg Newspaper Co.
Larkin Thorndke Lee's mummy.
Mummy brought into New York City in 1824 by Captain Larkin Thorndike Lee.
Advertisement for the exhibtion of Capt. Lee's mummy
Adverisement for the exhibition of the mummy in Newark, N.J.
Notice of the sale of Jesse Sharples' estate and museums.
Notice of the sale, including a mummy.
Description of the two mummies formerly owned by Junius Brutus Booth on display at the National Institute (Now the Smithsonian)
Description of the two mummies in the museum.
Notice for exhibition of the "Blockhead Mummy."
Artidle showing venues for the exhibition of the "Blockhead Mummy."
Article about Egyptian mummies.
Reworked picture of mummy and coffins--altered to fit landscape mode.
Inner and outer coffins of Got-Thothi-Aunk, the mummy which Gliddon unwrapped in Boston.
View of the two coffins of Got-Thothi-Aunk.
Male mummy head at the Phrenological Institute.
Male mummy head in the collection of the Phrenological Museum of New York.
Mummy skulls showing ethnographic analysis
Ethnological description of Egyptian mummy skulls.
Head of Got-Thothi-Aunk
This is the head of the mummy Gliddon unwrapped in Boston.
Mummy coffins as depicted in Barnum's circus advertisements.
Illustrations of two coffins on exhibition with Barnum's circus.
Face of the outer coffin of Padihershef.
The face of the inner coffin of the mummy Padihershef. Modern photograph taken in the Ether Dome at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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.
Padihershef, inner coffin trough and original wooden cases.
Padhershef in the original wood and glass cases made by Henry Williams.
Cover and trough of Padisherf's outer coffin.
Padihershef's outer coffin as it would have been displayed.
Outer coffin of Padihershef as currently displayed.
Outer coffin in new display after conservation at the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum.
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.
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.
Coffin of one of the two "Peregrine mummies."
Inner coffin of an unidentified female mummy, which arrived on the brig Peregrine in 1824.
Lid of Padihershef's inner coffin.
Lid of the inner coffin of Padihershef, at the Ether Dome, Massachusetts General Hospital.
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.
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.
Inner and outer coffins of Got-Mus-As-Anch.
Coffins of Got-Mut-As-Anch, one of the mummies Gliddon unwrapped in Philadelphia.
Verso of the handbill from the exhibition in Philadelphia.
Handwritten anonymous note about the unwrapping of Got-Mut-As-Anch.
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.
Skull from the Morton Collection.
The only known illustration of one of the mummies which Michael Chandler had.
Trough of the outer coffin of Padihershef
Trough or the outer coffin of Padihershef after conservation and restoration.
Some of the mummies and mummy parts in the Abbott Collection.
Some of the mummies and antiquities in the Abbott Collection.
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.
Barnum's description of one of his mummies.
Barnum hyping up his mummy.
Advertisment for circus attractions, including mummies.
List of exhibits, including mummies.
Colored illustration of an unidentified mummy.
Unidentified mummy, in colored coffin.
Djedkhonsuiuesankh (Mummy)
Woodblock of Djedkhonsuiuesankh (Mummy)
Races of men.
Notes by Samuel George Morton on the types of mankind and the subject of race.
Exhibition of "mummy wheat"
"Mummy wheat" or "Egyptian wheat"
S.J. Wolfe's book.
A history of Egyptian mummies as artifacts in 19th century America.
Padihershef's outer coffin trough.
Intaglio print of the lid of the outer coffin of Padihershef
Advertisement for exhibition of a mummy at Scudder's museum.
Scudder's American Museum.
"Everyday Egyptian Coffin"
An image of an "everyday" coffin which is similar to the one shown in the Barnum advertisement.
Egyptian mummies.
Mummies at the British Museum.