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Cumberland Mills, Westbrook, Maine.
View of the falls and mill buildings on the Presumpscott River.
Cumberland Mills, Westbrook, Maine.
Mummy rags were stored here and shipped to S.D. Warren Company's other mills in Maine.
Cumberland Mills, Westbrook, Maine.
S.D. Warren imported mummy rags as a source for fiber in his Cumberland Mills.
Rag cutting.
Rags being cut into small pieces, and debris being removed.
Steam boiler for boiling rags.
Rags were boiled to complete the cleaning process.
Beating rags to a pulp (literally)
Rags were washed again and beaten to break down the pieces into a pulp.
Rag pulp grinding tanks
The pulp is ground to make a slurry before going into the machines.
Running the slurry into the machines.
Putting the slurry from the tank into the papermaking machinery.
Fourdrinier machines.
Fourdrinier machines took the raw materials and converted them to basic paper.
Finishing the paper.
Papermaking--Connecticut--Norwich.
Cutting the paper to size.
Cutting the paper from the big rolls was another job that women could do in the papermills.
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.
Fine binding for the Norwich Jubilee book.
Gold-stamped and gold-tooled tan morocco leather binding for the deluxe edition of the Norwich Jubilee book.
Hand-colored map of Norwich, Conn.
Hand colored map of Norwich which was issued inside the Norwich Jubilee book.
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.
Burning the mummy.
The dramatic event which unleashes the mummy's curse.
Barnum's description of one of his mummies.
Barnum hyping up his mummy.
Map showing some of the places that the mummies from the brig Peregrine were exhibited.
Map of the documented travels of the mummies from the brig Peregrine.
Advertisment for circus attractions, including mummies.
List of exhibits, including mummies.
Boylston's mummy at the American Antiquarian Society.
Manuscript account of Boylston's gift of mummy relics to the AAS in November 1819.
Boylston's mummy at the American Antiquarian Society.
Manuscript account of Boylston's gift of mummy relics, August 1820.
Spreading the news of Boylston's mummy.
Map showing the dissemination of the news of Boylston's mummy over a six-week period.
Documented travels of Capt. Lee's mummy.
Map of the documented exhibitions of Capt. Lee's mummy.
Colored illustration of an unidentified mummy.
Unidentified mummy, in colored coffin.
Castle Garden.
View of Castle Garden, where the autopsy of Lee's mummy was carried out.
Barnum's American Museum,
View of Broadway showing Barnum's American Museum.
Congress Springs.
View of the Spring House.
Scudder's American Museum.
Scudder's American Museum. Djedkhonsuiuesankh (Mummy) was exhibited here.
Franklin Building, Salem, Mass.
Djedkhonsuiuesankh (Mummy) was exhibited here. It burned in 1860.
Djedkhonsuiuesankh (Mummy)
Woodblock of Djedkhonsuiuesankh (Mummy)
Muhammad Ali Pasha.
The Pasha of Egypt.
Description of one of the mummies from the Chandler collection.
Description of one of the Chandler mummies.
Peale's Museum (The Arcade, Baltimore)
View of Ruben Peale's Baltimore museum.
Edgar Allen Poe.
Dagguereotype of Poe.
Map of the travels of the "Mormon mummies."
Map of the documented travels of the "Mormon mummies."
Scudder's Museum.
Blue tranfer printed Staffordshire pottery with images of Scudder's Museum. Djedkhonsuiuesankh (Mummy) was exhibited here.
Races of men.
Notes by Samuel George Morton on the types of mankind and the subject of race.
Lyceum, New Orleans.
Location of George Gliddon's final mummy unwrappings. The Lyceum was located on the second floor of the City Hall for the Second District. Later known as Gallier Hall.
Samuel George Morton.
Portrat of Morton, one of the foremost ethnologists of his day.
Exhibition of "mummy wheat"
"Mummy wheat" or "Egyptian wheat"
Egyptian antiquities.
Unidentified Egyptian antiquities exhibited at the fair.
An unidentified mummy on exhibition at the Metropolitan Fair.
An unidentified mummy which was exhibited at the Metropolitan Fair.
Bird's eye view of New Orleans.
Lithographed bird's eye view of the city of New Orleans.
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.
Gadsby's Hotel
Gadsby's Hotel (Also known as the National Hotel) where Turner's mummy was exhibited.
Peale's New York Museum
Watercolor of Peale's New York Museum.
"Everyday Egyptian Coffin"
An image of an "everyday" coffin which is similar to the one shown in the Barnum advertisement.
Postcard view of Gardiner, Maine.
Postcard view of Gardiner, Maine.
The New Dam at Great Falls.
Postcard view of the new dam at Great Falls, built by S.D. Warren Co.
View of S.D. Warren & Co, in Westbrook.
Postcard view of Cumberland Mills.
Stanwood & Towar Mill in Gardiner, Maine.
Postcard of Stanwood & Towar Mill, later Hollingsworth & Whitney.
Postcard view of the mills in Gardiner, Maine.
Postcard showing the rear view of the paper mills in Gardiner, Maine.
Egyptian mummies.
Mummies at the British Museum.
Allamistakeo.
Woodcut of the mummy Allamistakeo awakening.