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Cover and trough of Padisherf's outer coffin.
Padihershef's outer coffin as it would have been displayed.
Padihershef, inner coffin trough and original wooden cases.
Padhershef in the original wood and glass cases made by Henry Williams.
Face of the mummy Padihershef.
The face of Padihershef as revealed by an autopsy by John Collins Warren and others.
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.
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.
Allamistakeo.
Woodcut of the mummy Allamistakeo awakening.
Cover of "Poe's tales."
Brilliantly colored cover of one of Poe's books.
Samuel George Morton.
Portrat of Morton, one of the foremost ethnologists of his day.
Head of Got-Thothi-Aunk
This is the head of the mummy Gliddon unwrapped in Boston.
Mummy skulls showing ethnographic analysis
Ethnological description of Egyptian mummy skulls.
Inner and outer coffins of Got-Thothi-Aunk, the mummy which Gliddon unwrapped in Boston.
View of the two coffins of Got-Thothi-Aunk.
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
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.
Races of men.
Notes by Samuel George Morton on the types of mankind and the subject of race.
Description of one of the mummies from the Chandler collection.
Description of one of the Chandler mummies.
Skull from the Morton Collection.
The only known illustration of one of the mummies which Michael Chandler had.
Illustrations of Samuel George Morton's Egyptian mummy skulls.
Drawings of Egyptian mummy skulls in the collection of Samuel George Morton.
Bird's eye view of New Orleans.
Lithographed bird's eye view of the city of New Orleans.
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 Boston Museum.
Exterior view of the Boston Museum, owned by Moses Kimball.
Barnum's American Museum,
View of Broadway showing Barnum's American Museum.
View of the city of Gardiner and the Copsecook Paper Mill.
Copsecook Mill (later Great Falls Mill) made paper from mummy wrappings.
Wyman's Hall.
View of Wyman's Museum where two of the mummies from the Mormons were exhibited.
Description of the mummy skull which once belonged to Ward Nicholas Boylston.
Notes on the remains of Boylston's mummy.
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.
Verso of the handbill from the exhibition in Philadelphia.
Handwritten anonymous note about the unwrapping of Got-Mut-As-Anch.
Inner and outer coffins of Got-Mus-As-Anch.
Coffins of Got-Mut-As-Anch, one of the mummies Gliddon unwrapped in Philadelphia.
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.
Location of S.D. Warren Mill on the Presumpscott River, Maine.
Paper was made from mummy wrappings at this mill.
Scudder's Museum.
Blue tranfer printed Staffordshire pottery with images of Scudder's Museum. Djedkhonsuiuesankh (Mummy) was exhibited here.
Mummy skull in the collection of the Chicago Museum.
Skull collected by Joseph Dorfeuille for the Western Museum.
Isaiah Deck's proposal to use mummy wrappings as a source of materials for American paper mills.
Deck's observations and calculations on the amount of mummy wrappings available, and a proposal to use these as a source for making paper.
Locations of paper mills on the Cobossee Conte, Gardiner, Maine.
Most of the papermills on the Cobbossee Conte made paper from mummy wrappings.
Catalogue of an exhibition organized to raise money for the U.S. Sanitary Commission.
Curiosities and wonders exhibited at the Metropolitan Fair.
The New-England Museum
The New-England Museum (Boston, Mass)
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.
Catalogue of the Boston Museum.
Cover of the catalogue for the Boston Museum
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.
Rhyming catalogue or the Boston Museum.
Verso of the broadside "Amusement for the million!"
The "mummy" trying to hide.
Illustration of the "mummy" trying to hide behind a screen.
List of the cast for "The mummy, or Liquor of life"
Cast of the play.
Title page of: The mummy: or, The liquor of life! ; A farce, in one act.
One of the early plays featuring an mummy theme.
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.
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.
Barnum's description of one of his mummies.
Barnum hyping up his mummy.
Mummy coffins as depicted in Barnum's circus advertisements.
Illustrations of two coffins on exhibition with Barnum's circus.
P.T. Barnum
Portrait of P.T. Barnum in his advertising paper.
Boylston's mummy at the American Antiquarian Society.
Manuscript account of Boylston's gift of mummy relics, August 1820.
Boylston's mummy at the American Antiquarian Society.
Manuscript account of Boylston's gift of mummy relics to the AAS in November 1819.
Mummy horror story.
A Gothic horror story featuring a vengeful mummy.
Burning the mummy.
The dramatic event which unleashes the mummy's curse.
Some of the mummies and mummy parts in the Abbott Collection.
Some of the mummies and antiquities in the Abbott Collection.
Exhibition catalogue for Abbott's collection.
Catalogue of the Egyptian antiquities, incluing mummies and mummy parts, collected and exhibited by Henry Abbott.
Junius Brutus Booth.
Portrait of Junius Brutus Booth.