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Mummy coffins as depicted in Barnum's circus advertisements.
Illustrations of two coffins on exhibition with Barnum's circus.
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.
Mummy horror story.
A Gothic horror story featuring a vengeful mummy.
Mummy skull in the collection of the Chicago Museum.
Skull collected by Joseph Dorfeuille for the Western Museum.
Mummy skulls showing ethnographic analysis
Ethnological description of Egyptian mummy skulls.
Notice for exhibition of the "Blockhead Mummy."
Artidle showing venues for the exhibition of the "Blockhead Mummy."
Notice of the sale of Jesse Sharples' estate and museums.
Notice of the sale, including a mummy.
Outer coffin of Padihershef as currently displayed.
Outer coffin in new display after conservation at the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum.
P.T. Barnum
Portrait of P.T. Barnum in his advertising paper.
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.
Padihershef's outer coffin trough.
Intaglio print of the lid of the outer coffin of Padihershef
Peale's Museum (The Arcade, Baltimore)
View of Ruben Peale's Baltimore museum.
Peale's New York Museum
Watercolor of Peale's New York Museum.
Postcard view of Gardiner, Maine.
Postcard view of Gardiner, Maine.
Postcard view of the mills in Gardiner, Maine.
Postcard showing the rear view of the paper mills in Gardiner, Maine.
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.
Races of men.
Notes by Samuel George Morton on the types of mankind and the subject of race.
Rag cutting.
Rags being cut into small pieces, and debris being removed.
Rag pulp grinding tanks
The pulp is ground to make a slurry before going into the machines.
Rhyming catalogue or the Boston Museum.
Verso of the broadside "Amusement for the million!"
Ruins of Wood's Museum and the Globe theater.
Half of a stereograph view of the ruins after the Great Fire of 1871.
Running the slurry into the machines.
Putting the slurry from the tank into the papermaking machinery.
S.J. Wolfe's book.
A history of Egyptian mummies as artifacts in 19th century America.
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.
Samuel George Morton.
Morton was an ethnologist who believed in polygenisis and collected skulls in order to defend his theories.
Samuel George Morton.
Portrat of Morton, one of the foremost ethnologists of his day.
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.
Scudder's American Museum.
Scudder's American Museum. Djedkhonsuiuesankh (Mummy) was exhibited here.
Scudder's Museum.
Blue tranfer printed Staffordshire pottery with images of Scudder's Museum. Djedkhonsuiuesankh (Mummy) was exhibited here.
Skull from the Morton Collection.
The only known illustration of one of the mummies which Michael Chandler had.
Some of the mummies and mummy parts in the Abbott Collection.
Some of the mummies and antiquities in the Abbott Collection.
Spreading the news of Boylston's mummy.
Map showing the dissemination of the news of Boylston's mummy over a six-week period.
Stanwood & Towar Mill in Gardiner, Maine.
Postcard of Stanwood & Towar Mill, later Hollingsworth & Whitney.
Steam boiler for boiling rags.
Rags were boiled to complete the cleaning process.
The "mummy" trying to hide.
Illustration of the "mummy" trying to hide behind a screen.
The Boston Museum.
Exterior view of the Boston Museum, owned by Moses Kimball.
The New Dam at Great Falls.
Postcard view of the new dam at Great Falls, built by S.D. Warren Co.
The New-England Museum
The New-England Museum (Boston, Mass)
The tombs at Thebes.
View of the site of Thebes, where many mummies were buried.
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
Title page of the Norwich Jubilee book.
The Norwich Jubilee book was printed on paper made from mummy wrappings.
Title page of: The mummy: or, The liquor of life! ; A farce, in one act.
One of the early plays featuring an mummy theme.
Trough of the outer coffin of Padihershef
Trough or the outer coffin of Padihershef after conservation and restoration.
Vermont Republican and American yeoman.
Advertisement for exhibition of the "Blockhead mummy."
Verso of the handbill from the exhibition in Philadelphia.
Handwritten anonymous note about the unwrapping of Got-Mut-As-Anch.
View of Nauvoo, Ill.
View of the city of Nauvoo, where the Mormons settled.
View of S.D. Warren & Co, in Westbrook.
Postcard view of Cumberland Mills.
View of the city of Gardiner and the Copsecook Paper Mill.
Copsecook Mill (later Great Falls Mill) made paper from mummy wrappings.
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.
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.
View of Tremont Street, Boston, in the 1850's, showing Tremont Temple.
View of Tremont Street, showing Tremont Temple and other buildings.
Women sorting rags.
Sorting room at Chelsea Mills. This was one of the mill jobs which could be done by women
Wyman's Hall.
View of Wyman's Museum where two of the mummies from the Mormons were exhibited.