This exceptional lot features the field desk with key, the original designs and notes for the construction of the desk, three CDVs and a cabinet card of Dr. Cooper, five war-date documents relating to the desk and Cooper's service, and two binders containing research materials. Desk measures 18.75 x 32 x 18 in. high. when closed, with Cooper painted in an arch above the handles on both sides. A contract surgeon for several regiments at the beginning of the war, Dr. John Cooper advance to take charge of the US Army hospitals it Alexandria, VA, and New Orleans, prior to being assigned to significant medical positions within the 15th and 17th Army Corps. Perhaps his most noteworthy contribution, however, was the design of an ambulance dubbed by soldiers as "Cooper's Pie Wagon." The inventive doctor composed the plans for the desk with maximum utility in mind. Every item he requires has a designated drawer or slot, and the whole is designed to waste as little space as possible during travel: The bookcase is movable and sets on top of the other when open for use & in transport it sets in front of the other and, raising the leaf and letting down the top, the whole forms a chest little larger than a common trunk. He calls it A present from Uncle Sam, and notes that it was Made in Alexandria Va at the the Quartermaster's repair shops. The three CDVs are Civil War-era, including a view made in Mobile, AL, while the cabinet card is a postwar portrait produced in New York, ca 1890. The documents include: a letter from Cooper to his brother, dated May 1862 at the Alexandria hospital; a United States Express Co. receipt for delivery of a box to Alexandria; the orders from Dept. of the Gulf Headquarters in New Orleans ordering Dr. Cooper to Fort St. Philip, Mississippi River, Dec. 1863; orders from the Dept. of Tenn. HQ at Raleigh relieving Cooper of duty with the 15th Army Corps and directing him to the 17th Army Corps, April 1865; and orders from 17th Corps HQ at Louisville regarding inspection of sick and wounded soldiers, June 1865. The accompanying research material provides a comprehensive record of Dr. Cooper's service through photocopied letters and official documents.
This exceptional lot features the field desk with key, the original designs and notes for the construction of the desk, three CDVs and a cabinet card of Dr. Cooper, five war-date documents relating to the desk and Cooper's service, and two binders containing research materials. Desk measures 18.75 x 32 x 18 in. high. when closed, with Cooper painted in an arch above the handles on both sides. A contract surgeon for several regiments at the beginning of the war, Dr. John Cooper advance to take charge of the US Army hospitals it Alexandria, VA, and New Orleans, prior to being assigned to significant medical positions within the 15th and 17th Army Corps. Perhaps his most noteworthy contribution, however, was the design of an ambulance dubbed by soldiers as "Cooper's Pie Wagon." The inventive doctor composed the plans for the desk with maximum utility in mind. Every item he requires has a designated drawer or slot, and the whole is designed to waste as little space as possible during travel: The bookcase is movable and sets on top of the other when open for use & in transport it sets in front of the other and, raising the leaf and letting down the top, the whole forms a chest little larger than a common trunk. He calls it A present from Uncle Sam, and notes that it was Made in Alexandria Va at the the Quartermaster's repair shops. The three CDVs are Civil War-era, including a view made in Mobile, AL, while the cabinet card is a postwar portrait produced in New York, ca 1890. The documents include: a letter from Cooper to his brother, dated May 1862 at the Alexandria hospital; a United States Express Co. receipt for delivery of a box to Alexandria; the orders from Dept. of the Gulf Headquarters in New Orleans ordering Dr. Cooper to Fort St. Philip, Mississippi River, Dec. 1863; orders from the Dept. of Tenn. HQ at Raleigh relieving Cooper of duty with the 15th Army Corps and directing him to the 17th Army Corps, April 1865; and orders from 17th Corps HQ at Louisville regarding inspection of sick and wounded soldiers, June 1865. The accompanying research material provides a comprehensive record of Dr. Cooper's service through photocopied letters and official documents.
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