Chicago's royal princess of the ancient pharaohs
Concerning the mummy exhibited at "Gunther's New Confectionery" at 212 State St., Chicago, a wholesale candy factory and retail store incorporating a private museum, established by Charles Frederick Gunther in 1886; a wood engraving of the mummy case (as of 2004 in the Field Museum, Chicago) is printed above the title. Includes two poems, p. [4]: "The mummy of Sesostris. With M. Maspero in the Boulak Museum, Cairo, June 1, 1886", by H.D. Raunsley (first line: Among his perfumed wrappings Ram'ses lay); and "Address to a mummy of Thebes", by Horace Smith (first line: And thou hast walk'd about (how strange a story)). Conjectural date based on Gunther's confectionery being "new". Printed in two columns.
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