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Article about Egyptian mummies.
Reworked picture of mummy and coffins--altered to fit landscape mode.
The tombs at Thebes.
View of the site of Thebes, where many mummies were buried.
View of Nauvoo, Ill.
View of the city of Nauvoo, where the Mormons settled.
Vermont Republican and American yeoman.
Advertisement for exhibition of the "Blockhead mummy."
Admission tokens for Peale's New York museum
Admission tokens for Peale's Museum, New York.
Barnum museum fire.
Lithograph of the fire that destroyed Barnum's American Museum.
Male mummy head at the Phrenological Institute.
Male mummy head in the collection of the Phrenological Museum of New York.
Article from the newspapers about the arrival of Boylston's mummy.
Newspaper account of the arrival of Boylston's mummy in Boston.
Title page of the Norwich Jubilee book.
The Norwich Jubilee book was printed on paper made from mummy wrappings.
Chelsea paper mills, Greeneville (Norwich), Conn.
One of the largest paper manufactories in the world, used mummy wrappings to make paper.
Handbill for Gliddon's exhibition of his Panorama of the Nile at the Chinese Museum in Philadelphia.
Handbill, printed in red ink, for the exhibition of the Panorama of the Nile in Philadelphia.
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.
Isaac Augustus Stanwood.
Isaac Augustus Stanwood, partner of William Towar. They made mummy paper at their mill in Gardiner, Maine.
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.
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.
Advertisment for circus attractions, including mummies.
List of exhibits, including mummies.
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.
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.
Peale's Museum (The Arcade, Baltimore)
View of Ruben Peale's Baltimore museum.
Edgar Allen Poe.
Dagguereotype of Poe.
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.
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.
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.