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

Verso of the broadside "Amusement for the million!"

Unidentified mummy and its case.

Unidentified mummy and its coffin.

Skull collected by Joseph Dorfeuille for the Western Museum.

Intaglio print of the lid of the outer coffin of Padihershef.

Advertisement for the exhibition of Padihershes in Philadelphia.

Woodcut of the mummy brought into America by Captain Larkin Turner.

The New-England Museum (Boston, Mass)

View of the interior of the Boston Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts.

Very brief description of the two mummies from the Peregrine, on display at the Boston Museum.

Variant exhibition brochure for the Blockhead mummy. One of a pai of mummies brought by Henry Barclay and purchased by Rubens Peale.

View of the Sixth Saloon in Barnum's American Museum and a mummy in its case.

Catalogue of the Egyptian antiquities, incluing mummies and mummy parts, collected and exhibited by Henry Abbott.

Interior view of the Pacific Museum on Anatomy showing the different types of display, including mummies.

Drawings of Egyptian mummy skulls in the collection of Samuel George Morton.

The broadside Gliddon issues in Boston for his lecture series and for the mummy unwrappings.

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

Samuel Dennis Warren owned many mills in Maine, most of which used mummy rags. He also built Westwood, Maine as a model community.

Head of a female mummy in the Phrenological Museum of New York.

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

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

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

Paper was made from mummy wrappings at this mill.

Outer coffin of one of a pair of mummies brought by Henry Barclay and purchased by Rubens Peale.

Warren was a phusician at Massachusetts General Hospital, who examined several mummies for authenticity, and wrote about Boylston's mummy as well as Padihershef

View of the Masonic Temple where Michael Chandler exhibited his mummies.

Portait of Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism

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

Half of a stereograph view of the ruins of Wood's Museum and the Globe Theater after the great Chicago Fire of 1871.

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

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

Brilliantly colored cover of one of Poe's books.

A Gothic horror story featuring a vengeful mummy.

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

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

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

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

Curiosities and wonders exhibited at the Metropolitan Fair.

Advertisement for Peale's New York Museum, listing the attractions.

Adverisement for the exhibition of the mummy in Newark, N.J.

Notice of the sale, including a mummy.

Notes on the remains of Boylston's mummy.

Description of the two mummies in the museum.

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

Reworked picture of mummy and coffins--altered to fit landscape mode.

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

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

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

Portrait of Junius Brutus Booth.

Advertisement for exhibition of the "Blockhead mummy."

Admission tokens for Peale's Museum, New York.

One of the early plays featuring an mummy theme.

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

Lithograph of the fire that destroyed Barnum's American Museum.

Cast of the play.

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

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

Ethnological description of Egyptian mummy skulls.

Newspaper account of the arrival of Boylston's mummy in Boston.

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

One of the largest paper manufactories in the world, used mummy wrappings to make paper.

Handbill, printed in red ink, for the exhibition of the Panorama of the Nile in Philadelphia.

This is the head of the mummy Gliddon unwrapped in Boston.

Cover of the catalogue for the Boston Museum

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

The face of the inner coffin of the mummy Padihershef. Modern photograph taken in the Ether Dome at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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.

The face of Padihershef as revealed by an autopsy by John Collins Warren and others.

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

Padihershef's outer coffin as it would have been displayed.

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

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.

Modern view of the Great Falls Dam, all that is left of the paper mill that it served.

Advertisement for display of the two mummies from the Peregrine and Larkin Turner's mummy.

Outer coffin of an unidentified male mummy which arrived aboard the brig Peregrine in Boston in 1824.

Inner coffin of an unidentified female mummy, which arrived on the brig Peregrine in 1824.

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

Map of all the locations where Padihershef was exhibited.

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

Map of some of the places in which the "Blockhead Mummy" was exhibited.

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

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.

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.

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

Handwritten anonymous note about the unwrapping 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.

Deck's observations and calculations on the amount of mummy wrappings available, and a proposal to use these as a source for making paper.

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

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

View of the falls, dam and remaining mill buildings of the S.D. Warren Company, that made paper from mummy wrappings in Westbrook, Maine.

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

Some of the mummies and antiquities in the Abbott Collection.
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