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P.T. Barnum
Portrait of P.T. Barnum in his advertising paper.
Rhyming catalogue or the Boston Museum.
Verso of the broadside "Amusement for the million!"
Mummy and its case.
Unidentified mummy and its case.
Mummy and its case.
Unidentified mummy and its coffin.
Mummy skull in the collection of the Chicago Museum.
Skull collected by Joseph Dorfeuille for the Western Museum.
Engraved view of Padihershef's outer coffin
Intaglio print of the lid of the outer coffin of Padihershef.
Advertising woodcut for Padihershef.
Advertisement for the exhibition of Padihershes in Philadelphia.
Captain Larkin Turner's mummy.
Woodcut of the mummy brought into America by Captain Larkin Turner.
The New-England Museum
The New-England Museum (Boston, Mass)
Grand staircase of the Boston Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts.
View of the interior of the Boston Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts.
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.
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.
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.
Exhibition catalogue for Abbott's collection.
Catalogue of the Egyptian antiquities, incluing mummies and mummy parts, collected and exhibited by Henry Abbott.
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.
Illustrations of Samuel George Morton's Egyptian mummy skulls.
Drawings of Egyptian mummy skulls in the collection of Samuel George Morton.
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.
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
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.
Female mummy head at the Phrenological Institute
Head of a female mummy in the Phrenological Museum of New York.
Women sorting rags.
Sorting room at Chelsea Mills. This was one of the mill jobs which could be done by women
Mummies at the circus.
Two wrapped mummies on display with Barnum's circus at Watertown, Conn. (Adult & child?)
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.
Exhibition brochure for the "Blockhead mummy."
Outer coffin of one of a pair of mummies brought by Henry Barclay and purchased by Rubens Peale.
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
Masonic Temple (Philadelphia).
View of the Masonic Temple where Michael Chandler exhibited his mummies.
Joseph Smith, Mormon prophet and leader.
Portait of Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism
Ruins of Wood's Museum and the Globe theater.
Half of a stereograph view of the ruins after the Great Fire of 1871.
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.
View of Tremont Street, Boston, in the 1850's, showing Tremont Temple.
View of Tremont Street, showing Tremont Temple and other buildings.
Masthead of the Columbian centinel.
Masthead of the first newspaper to publish the arrival of Ward Nicholas Boylston's mummy.
Cover of "Poe's tales."
Brilliantly colored cover of one of Poe's books.
Mummy horror story.
A Gothic horror story featuring a vengeful mummy.
Late 19th century woodcut of two men looking at a mummy.
Advertising cut (type) for sale by A.N. Kellogg Newspaper Co.
View of the city of Gardiner and the Copsecook Paper Mill.
Copsecook Mill (later Great Falls Mill) made paper from mummy wrappings.
Larkin Thorndke Lee's mummy.
Mummy brought into New York City in 1824 by Captain Larkin Thorndike Lee.
Samuel George Morton.
Morton was an ethnologist who believed in polygenisis and collected skulls in order to defend his theories.
Catalogue of an exhibition organized to raise money for the U.S. Sanitary Commission.
Curiosities and wonders exhibited at the Metropolitan Fair.
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.
Notice of the sale of Jesse Sharples' estate and museums.
Notice of the sale, including a mummy.
Description of the mummy skull which once belonged to Ward Nicholas Boylston.
Notes on the remains of Boylston's mummy.
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.
Notice for exhibition of the "Blockhead Mummy."
Artidle showing venues for the exhibition of the "Blockhead Mummy."
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.
Wyman's Hall.
View of Wyman's Museum where two of the mummies from the Mormons were exhibited.
Junius Brutus Booth.
Portrait of Junius Brutus Booth.
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.
Title page of: The mummy: or, The liquor of life! ; A farce, in one act.
One of the early plays featuring an mummy theme.
Inner and outer coffins of Got-Thothi-Aunk, the mummy which Gliddon unwrapped in Boston.
View of the two coffins of Got-Thothi-Aunk.
Barnum museum fire.
Lithograph of the fire that destroyed Barnum's American Museum.
List of the cast for "The mummy, or Liquor of life"
Cast of the play.
The "mummy" trying to hide.
Illustration of the "mummy" trying to hide behind a screen.
Male mummy head at the Phrenological Institute.
Male mummy head in the collection of the Phrenological Museum of New York.
Mummy skulls showing ethnographic analysis
Ethnological description of Egyptian mummy skulls.
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.
Head of Got-Thothi-Aunk
This is the head of the mummy Gliddon unwrapped in Boston.
Catalogue of the Boston Museum.
Cover of the catalogue for the Boston Museum
Mummy coffins as depicted in Barnum's circus advertisements.
Illustrations of two coffins on exhibition with Barnum's circus.
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.
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 mummy Padihershef.
The face of Padihershef as revealed by an autopsy by John Collins Warren and others.
Padihershef, inner coffin trough and original wooden cases.
Padhershef in the original wood and glass cases made by Henry Williams.
Cover and trough of Padisherf's outer coffin.
Padihershef's outer coffin as it would have been displayed.
Outer coffin of Padihershef as currently displayed.
Outer coffin in new display after conservation at the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum.
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.
Great Falls Dam.
Modern view of the Great Falls Dam, all that is left of the paper mill that it served.
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.
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.
Map of the travels of the "Blockhead mummy."
Map of some of the places in which the "Blockhead Mummy" was exhibited.
Lid of Padihershef's inner coffin.
Lid of the inner coffin of Padihershef, at the Ether Dome, Massachusetts General Hospital.
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.
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.
Inner and outer coffins of Got-Mus-As-Anch.
Coffins of Got-Mut-As-Anch, one of the mummies Gliddon unwrapped in Philadelphia.
Verso of the handbill from the exhibition in Philadelphia.
Handwritten anonymous note about the unwrapping of Got-Mut-As-Anch.
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.
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.
The Boston Museum.
Exterior view of the Boston Museum, owned by Moses Kimball.
Skull from the Morton Collection.
The only known illustration of one of the mummies which Michael Chandler had.
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.
Trough of the outer coffin of Padihershef
Trough or the outer coffin of Padihershef after conservation and restoration.
Some of the mummies and mummy parts in the Abbott Collection.
Some of the mummies and antiquities in the Abbott Collection.