Brochure for Cooley's Cabinet Printing Office, dated July, 1862
date: label: date made
content: ca 1862
name: label: printer
content: Cooley, J. G.
notes: label: Description
content: Like other portable presses sold at this time, J. G. Cooley's New York Cabinet Press was sold with accompanying equipment in more than one size. This 1862 advertisement for the Cooley press calls for its use by <I>small country printers, merchants, druggists, grocers, bankers, and the army and navy &c.</I>
label: Description
content: The advertisement states: <I>Gen. McClellan, upon the recommendation of Capt. Irwin, of his staff, who was detailed especially to examine it, ordered two complete offices for his head-quarters, Col. Ferris, of the Conn. Fifth, has one; Col. Mix, of the New York Cavalry, has one; Gen. Burnside has one; Gen. Porter, one; Rev. G. D. Crocker, Chaplain of Ira Harris Bridgade, has one; Capt. Tallmadge has one at Fortress Monroe . . . . </I>
label: Description
content: No known examples of this press still exist.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: used
content: Printing
label: used
content: Civil War
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Military
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content: Communications
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: Civil War Field Printing
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0162.010
label: accession number
content: 2007.0162
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0162.010
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pamphlet
label: Object Type
content: Letterpress
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 cm x 14 cm; 8 1/4 in x 5 1/2 in