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"Everyday Egyptian Coffin"
An image of an "everyday" coffin which is similar to the one shown in the Barnum advertisement.
Admission tokens for Peale's New York museum
Admission tokens for Peale's Museum, New York.
Advertisement for exhibition of a mummy at Scudder's museum.
Scudder's American Museum.
Advertisement for Reubens Peale's New York Museum.
Advertisement for Peale's New York Museum, listing the attractions.
Advertisement for the exhibtion of Capt. Lee's mummy
Adverisement for the exhibition of the mummy in Newark, N.J.
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.
Advertising woodcut for Padihershef.
Advertisement for the exhibition of Padihershes in Philadelphia.
Advertisment for circus attractions, including mummies.
List of exhibits, including mummies.
Allamistakeo.
Woodcut of the mummy Allamistakeo awakening.
An unidentified mummy on exhibition at the Metropolitan Fair.
An unidentified mummy which was exhibited at the Metropolitan Fair.
Article about Egyptian mummies.
Reworked picture of mummy and coffins--altered to fit landscape mode.
Article from the newspapers about the arrival of Boylston's mummy.
Newspaper account of the arrival of Boylston's mummy in Boston.
Barnum museum fire.
Lithograph of the fire that destroyed Barnum's American Museum.
Barnum's American Museum,
View of Broadway showing Barnum's American Museum.
Barnum's description of one of his mummies.
Barnum hyping up his mummy.
Beating rags to a pulp (literally)
Rags were washed again and beaten to break down the pieces into a pulp.
Bird's eye view of New Orleans.
Lithographed bird's eye view of the city of New Orleans.
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.
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.
Burning the mummy.
The dramatic event which unleashes the mummy's curse.
Captain Larkin Turner's mummy.
Woodcut of the mummy brought into America by Captain Larkin Turner.
Castle Garden.
View of Castle Garden, where the autopsy of Lee's mummy was carried out.
Catalogue of an exhibition organized to raise money for the U.S. Sanitary Commission.
Curiosities and wonders exhibited at the Metropolitan Fair.
Catalogue of the Boston Museum.
Cover of the catalogue for the Boston Museum
Chelsea paper mills, Greeneville (Norwich), Conn.
One of the largest paper manufactories in the world, used mummy wrappings to make paper.
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.
Colored illustration of an unidentified mummy.
Unidentified mummy, in colored coffin.
Congress Springs.
View of the Spring House.
Cover and trough of Padisherf's outer coffin.
Padihershef's outer coffin as it would have been displayed.
Cover of "Poe's tales."
Brilliantly colored cover of one of Poe's books.
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.
Cutting the paper to size.
Cutting the paper from the big rolls was another job that women could do in the papermills.
Dam at Stanwood and Towar Mill in Gardiner, Maine.
Originally the Cobbossee Mill, then Stanwood & Tower, then Hollingsworth & Whitney. Mummy paper was made at this mill, and it is the only mummy paper mill still standing in Gardiner, Maine.
Description of one of the mummies from the Chandler collection.
Description of one of the Chandler mummies.
Description of the mummy skull which once belonged to Ward Nicholas Boylston.
Notes on the remains of Boylston's mummy.
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.
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.
Djedkhonsuiuesankh (Mummy)
Woodblock of Djedkhonsuiuesankh (Mummy)
Documented travels of Capt. Lee's mummy.
Map of the documented exhibitions of Capt. Lee's mummy.
Edgar Allen Poe.
Dagguereotype of Poe.
Egyptian antiquities.
Unidentified Egyptian antiquities exhibited at the fair.
Egyptian mummies.
Mummies at the British Museum.
Engraved view of Padihershef's outer coffin
Intaglio print of the lid of the outer coffin of Padihershef.
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.
Exhibition brochure for the "Blockhead mummy."
Outer coffin of one of a pair of mummies brought by Henry Barclay and purchased by Rubens Peale.
Exhibition catalogue for Abbott's collection.
Catalogue of the Egyptian antiquities, incluing mummies and mummy parts, collected and exhibited by Henry Abbott.
Exhibition of "mummy wheat"
"Mummy wheat" or "Egyptian wheat"
Face of the mummy Padihershef.
The face of Padihershef as revealed by an autopsy by John Collins Warren and others.
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.
Female mummy head at the Phrenological Institute
Head of a female mummy in the Phrenological Museum of New York.
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.
Finishing the paper.
Papermaking--Connecticut--Norwich.
Fourdrinier machines.
Fourdrinier machines took the raw materials and converted them to basic paper.
Franklin Building, Salem, Mass.
Djedkhonsuiuesankh (Mummy) was exhibited here. It burned in 1860.
Gadsby's Hotel
Gadsby's Hotel (Also known as the National Hotel) where Turner's mummy was exhibited.
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.
Grand staircase of the Boston Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts.
View of the interior of the Boston Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts.
Great Falls Dam.
Modern view of the Great Falls Dam, all that is left of the paper mill that it served.
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.
Hand-colored map of Norwich, Conn.
Hand colored map of Norwich which was issued inside the Norwich Jubilee book.
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.
Head of Got-Thothi-Aunk
This is the head of the mummy Gliddon unwrapped in Boston.
Illustrations of Samuel George Morton's Egyptian mummy skulls.
Drawings of Egyptian mummy skulls in the collection of Samuel George Morton.
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.
Inner and outer coffins of Got-Mus-As-Anch.
Coffins of Got-Mut-As-Anch, one of the mummies Gliddon unwrapped in Philadelphia.
Inner and outer coffins of Got-Thothi-Aunk, the mummy which Gliddon unwrapped in Boston.
View of the two coffins of Got-Thothi-Aunk.
Isaac Augustus Stanwood.
Isaac Augustus Stanwood, partner of William Towar. They made mummy paper at their mill in Gardiner, Maine.
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.
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
Joseph Smith, Mormon prophet and leader.
Portait of Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism
Junius Brutus Booth.
Portrait of Junius Brutus Booth.
Larkin Thorndke Lee's mummy.
Mummy brought into New York City in 1824 by Captain Larkin Thorndike Lee.
Late 19th century woodcut of two men looking at a mummy.
Advertising cut (type) for sale by A.N. Kellogg Newspaper Co.
Lid of Padihershef's inner coffin.
Lid of the inner coffin of Padihershef, at the Ether Dome, Massachusetts General Hospital.
List of the cast for "The mummy, or Liquor of life"
Cast of the play.
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.
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.
Male mummy head at the Phrenological Institute.
Male mummy head in the collection of the Phrenological Museum of New York.
Map of the travels of Capt. Larkin Turner's mummy.
Map showing the places where Capt. Turner's mummy was exhibited.
Map of the travels of Padihershef.
Map of all the locations where Padihershef was exhibited.
Map of the travels of the "Blockhead mummy."
Map of some of the places in which the "Blockhead Mummy" was exhibited.
Map of the travels of the "Mormon mummies."
Map of the documented travels of the "Mormon mummies."
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.
Masonic Temple (Philadelphia).
View of the Masonic Temple where Michael Chandler exhibited his mummies.
Masthead of the Columbian centinel.
Masthead of the first newspaper to publish the arrival of Ward Nicholas Boylston's mummy.
Modern view of the dam,falls and mill buildings on the Presumpscott River in Westbrook, Maine.
View of the falls, dam and remaining mill buildings of the S.D. Warren Company, that made paper from mummy wrappings in Westbrook, Maine.
Muhammad Ali Pasha.
The Pasha of Egypt.
Mummies at the circus.
Two wrapped mummies on display with Barnum's circus at Watertown, Conn. (Adult & child?)
Mummy and its case.
Unidentified mummy and its case.
Mummy and its case.
Unidentified mummy and its coffin.