Early American Mummymania

Wyman's Hall.

View of Wyman's Museum where two of the mummies from the Mormons were exhibited.

Women sorting rags.

Sorting room at Chelsea Mills. This was one of the mill jobs which could be done by women

Ward Nicholas Boylston.

View of Tremont Street, Boston, in the 1850's, showing Tremont Temple.

View of Tremont Street, showing Tremont Temple and other buildings.

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 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 city of Gardiner and the Copsecook Paper Mill.

Copsecook Mill (later Great Falls Mill) made paper from mummy wrappings.

View of S.D. Warren & Co, in Westbrook.

Postcard view of Cumberland Mills.

View of Nauvoo, Ill.

View of the city of Nauvoo, where the Mormons settled.

Verso of the handbill from the exhibition in Philadelphia.

Handwritten anonymous note about the unwrapping of Got-Mut-As-Anch.

Vermont Republican and American yeoman.

Another advertisement for the Blockhead mummy.

Advertisement for exhibition of the "Blockhead mummy."

Trough of the outer coffin of Padihershef

Trough or the outer coffin of Padihershef after conservation and restoration.

Title page of: The mummy: or, The liquor of life! ; A farce, in one act.

One of the early plays featuring an mummy theme.

Title page of the Norwich Jubilee book.

The Norwich Jubilee book was printed on paper made from mummy wrappings.

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

The tombs at Thebes.

View of the site of Thebes, where many mummies were buried.

The New-England Museum

The New-England Museum (Boston, Mass)

The New Dam at Great Falls.

Postcard view of the new dam at Great Falls, built by S.D. Warren Co.

The Boston Museum.

Exterior view of the Boston Museum, owned by Moses Kimball.

The Academy of Natural Science in Philadelphia.

The "mummy" trying to hide.

Illustration of the "mummy" trying to hide behind a screen.

Steam boiler for boiling rags.

Rags were boiled to complete the cleaning process.

Stanwood & Towar Mill in Gardiner, Maine.

Postcard of Stanwood & Towar Mill, later Hollingsworth & Whitney.

Spreading the news of Boylston's mummy.

Map showing the dissemination of the news of Boylston's mummy over a six-week period.

Some of the mummies and mummy parts in the Abbott Collection.

Some of the mummies and antiquities in the Abbott Collection.

Skull from the Morton Collection.

The only known illustration of one of the mummies which Michael Chandler had.

Scudder's Museum.

Blue tranfer printed Staffordshire pottery with images of Scudder's Museum. Djedkhonsuiuesankh (Mummy) was exhibited here.

Scudder's American Museum.

Scudder's American Museum. Djedkhonsuiuesankh (Mummy) was exhibited here.

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.

Samuel George Morton.

Portrat of Morton, one of the foremost ethnologists of his day.

Samuel George Morton.

Morton was an ethnologist who believed in polygenisis and collected skulls in order to defend his theories.

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.

S.J. Wolfe's book.

A history of Egyptian mummies as artifacts in 19th century America.

Running the slurry into the machines.

Putting the slurry from the tank into the papermaking machinery.

Ruins of Wood's Museum and the Globe theater.

Half of a stereograph view of the ruins after the Great Fire of 1871.

Rhyming catalogue or the Boston Museum.

Verso of the broadside "Amusement for the million!"

Rag pulp grinding tanks

The pulp is ground to make a slurry before going into the machines.

Rag cutting.

Rags being cut into small pieces, and debris being removed.

Races of men.

Notes by Samuel George Morton on the types of mankind and the subject of race.

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.

Postcard view of the mills in Gardiner, Maine.

Postcard showing the rear view of the paper mills in Gardiner, Maine.

Postcard view of Gardiner, Maine.

Postcard view of Gardiner, Maine.

Peale's New York Museum

Watercolor of Peale's New York Museum.

Peale's Museum (The Arcade, Baltimore)

View of Ruben Peale's Baltimore museum.

Padihershef's outer coffin trough.

Intaglio print of the lid of the outer coffin of Padihershef

Padihershef, inner coffin trough and original wooden cases.

Padhershef in the original wood and glass cases made by Henry Williams.

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.

P.T. Barnum

Portrait of P.T. Barnum in his advertising paper.

Outer coffin of Padihershef as currently displayed.

Outer coffin in new display after conservation at the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum.

Notice of the sale of Jesse Sharples' estate and museums.

Notice of the sale, including a mummy.

Notice for exhibition of the "Blockhead Mummy."

Artidle showing venues for the exhibition of the "Blockhead Mummy."

Mummy skulls showing ethnographic analysis

Ethnological description of Egyptian mummy skulls.

Mummy skull in the collection of the Chicago Museum.

Skull collected by Joseph Dorfeuille for the Western Museum.

Mummy horror story.

A Gothic horror story featuring a vengeful mummy.

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 coffins as depicted in Barnum's circus advertisements.

Illustrations of two coffins on exhibition with Barnum's circus.

Mummy and its case.

Unidentified mummy and its coffin.

Mummy and its case.

Unidentified mummy and its case.

Mummies at the circus.

Two wrapped mummies on display with Barnum's circus at Watertown, Conn. (Adult & child?)

Muhammad Ali Pasha.

The Pasha of Egypt.

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.

Masthead of the Columbian centinel.

Masthead of the first newspaper to publish the arrival of Ward Nicholas Boylston's mummy.

Masonic Temple (Philadelphia).

View of the Masonic Temple where Michael Chandler exhibited his 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.

Map of the travels of the "Mormon mummies."

Map of the documented travels of the "Mormon mummies."

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 Padihershef.

Map of all the locations where Padihershef was exhibited.

Map of the travels of Capt. Larkin Turner's mummy.

Map showing the places where Capt. Turner's mummy was exhibited.

Male mummy head at the Phrenological Institute.

Male mummy head in the collection of the Phrenological Museum of New York.

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.

Locations of paper mills on the Cobossee Conte, Gardiner, Maine.

Most of the papermills on the Cobbossee Conte made paper from mummy wrappings.

Location of S.D. Warren Mill on the Presumpscott River, Maine.

Paper was made from mummy wrappings at this mill.

List of the cast for "The mummy, or Liquor of life"

Cast of the play.

Lid of Padihershef's inner coffin.

Lid of the inner coffin of Padihershef, at the Ether Dome, Massachusetts General Hospital.

Late 19th century woodcut of two men looking at a mummy.

Advertising cut (type) for sale by A.N. Kellogg Newspaper Co.

Larkin Thorndke Lee's mummy.

Mummy brought into New York City in 1824 by Captain Larkin Thorndike Lee.

Junius Brutus Booth.

Portrait of Junius Brutus Booth.

Joseph Smith, Mormon prophet and leader.

Portait of Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism

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

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.

Isaac Augustus Stanwood.

Isaac Augustus Stanwood, partner of William Towar. They made mummy paper at their mill in Gardiner, Maine.

Inner and outer coffins of Got-Thothi-Aunk, the mummy which Gliddon unwrapped in Boston.

View of the two coffins of Got-Thothi-Aunk.

Inner and outer coffins of Got-Mus-As-Anch.

Coffins of Got-Mut-As-Anch, one of the mummies Gliddon unwrapped in Philadelphia.

Independent inquirer and commercial advertiser.

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.