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Wyman's Hall.
View of Wyman's Museum where two of the mummies from the Mormons were exhibited.
View of Nauvoo, Ill.
View of the city of Nauvoo, where the Mormons settled.
The tombs at Thebes.
View of the site of Thebes, where many mummies were buried.
Article about Egyptian mummies.
Reworked picture of mummy and coffins--altered to fit landscape mode.
Notice for exhibition of the "Blockhead Mummy."
Artidle showing venues for the exhibition of the "Blockhead 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.
Description of the mummy skull which once belonged to Ward Nicholas Boylston.
Notes on the remains of Boylston's mummy.
Notice of the sale of Jesse Sharples' estate and museums.
Notice of the sale, including a mummy.
Advertisement for the exhibtion of Capt. Lee's mummy
Adverisement for the exhibition of the mummy in Newark, N.J.
Advertisement for Reubens Peale's New York Museum.
Advertisement for Peale's New York Museum, listing the attractions.
Catalogue of an exhibition organized to raise money for the U.S. Sanitary Commission.
Curiosities and wonders exhibited at the Metropolitan Fair.
Samuel George Morton.
Morton was an ethnologist who believed in polygenisis and collected skulls in order to defend his theories.
Larkin Thorndke Lee's mummy.
Mummy brought into New York City in 1824 by Captain Larkin Thorndike Lee.
View of the city of Gardiner and the Copsecook Paper Mill.
Copsecook Mill (later Great Falls Mill) made paper from mummy wrappings.
Late 19th century woodcut of two men looking at a mummy.
Advertising cut (type) for sale by A.N. Kellogg Newspaper Co.
Mummy horror story.
A Gothic horror story featuring a vengeful mummy.
Cover of "Poe's tales."
Brilliantly colored cover of one of Poe's books.
Masthead of the Columbian centinel.
Masthead of the first newspaper to publish the arrival of Ward Nicholas Boylston's mummy.
View of Tremont Street, Boston, in the 1850's, showing Tremont Temple.
View of Tremont Street, showing Tremont Temple and other buildings.
Great Fire in Chicago Oct. 9, 1871.
Half of a stereograph view of the ruins of Wood's Museum and the Globe Theater after the great Chicago Fire of 1871.
Ruins of Wood's Museum and the Globe theater.
Half of a stereograph view of the ruins after the Great Fire of 1871.
Joseph Smith, Mormon prophet and leader.
Portait of Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism
Masonic Temple (Philadelphia).
View of the Masonic Temple where Michael Chandler exhibited his mummies.
John Collins Warren.
Warren was a phusician at Massachusetts General Hospital, who examined several mummies for authenticity, and wrote about Boylston's mummy as well as Padihershef
Exhibition brochure for the "Blockhead mummy."
Outer coffin of one of a pair of mummies brought by Henry Barclay and purchased by Rubens Peale.
Location of S.D. Warren Mill on the Presumpscott River, Maine.
Paper was made from mummy wrappings at this mill.
Locations of paper mills on the Cobossee Conte, Gardiner, Maine.
Most of the papermills on the Cobbossee Conte made paper from mummy wrappings.
Mummies at the circus.
Two wrapped mummies on display with Barnum's circus at Watertown, Conn. (Adult & child?)
Women sorting rags.
Sorting room at Chelsea Mills. This was one of the mill jobs which could be done by women
Female mummy head at the Phrenological Institute
Head of a female mummy in the Phrenological Museum of New York.
Samuel Dennis Warren.
Samuel Dennis Warren owned many mills in Maine, most of which used mummy rags. He also built Westwood, Maine as a model community.
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
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.
Illustrations of Samuel George Morton's Egyptian mummy skulls.
Drawings of Egyptian mummy skulls in the collection of Samuel George Morton.
View of the interior of the Pacific Museum of Anatomy.
Interior view of the Pacific Museum on Anatomy showing the different types of display, including mummies.
Exhibition catalogue for Abbott's collection.
Catalogue of the Egyptian antiquities, incluing mummies and mummy parts, collected and exhibited by Henry Abbott.
View of the Sixth Saloon of Barnum's American Museum.
View of the Sixth Saloon in Barnum's American Museum and a mummy in its case.
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.
Description of the Peregrine mummies on dislay at the Boston Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts.
Very brief description of the two mummies from the Peregrine, on display at the Boston Museum.
Grand staircase of the Boston Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts.
View of the interior of the Boston Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts.
The New-England Museum
The New-England Museum (Boston, Mass)
Captain Larkin Turner's mummy.
Woodcut of the mummy brought into America by Captain Larkin Turner.
Advertising woodcut for Padihershef.
Advertisement for the exhibition of Padihershes in Philadelphia.
Engraved view of Padihershef's outer coffin
Intaglio print of the lid of the outer coffin of Padihershef.
Mummy skull in the collection of the Chicago Museum.
Skull collected by Joseph Dorfeuille for the Western Museum.
Mummy and its case.
Unidentified mummy and its coffin.
Mummy and its case.
Unidentified mummy and its case.
Rhyming catalogue or the Boston Museum.
Verso of the broadside "Amusement for the million!"
P.T. Barnum
Portrait of P.T. Barnum in his advertising paper.