Hathaway's patent portable writing case, designed for army use. : This is a neat, compact, and useful article, so constructed as to combine both the portfolio and desk. A small metal case contains a patent secure-top inkstand, paper, pens, envelopes. &c.,
Title
Hathaway's patent portable writing case, designed for army use This is a neat, compact, and useful article, so constructed as to combine both the portfolio and desk. A small metal case contains a patent secure-top inkstand, paper, pens, envelopes. &c., --attached to this is a portfolio for note paper and letters,--and connected with the whole is a light, yet strong hinge table or writing board, which can be held in the hand and used in any position, either standing, sitting, or on horseback, and furnishes a hard and smooth surfaced for writing, always at hand and easily used. When packaged for transportation, it forms a roll of only nine inches in length, and weighs but thirteen ounces. They are made two different sizes. The new patent inkstand can be had separately, either singly or by the gross
Description
The illustration shows a Union soldier, in camp, writing on the portable desk., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
John M. Whittemore & Co.
Date
[between 1861 and 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 John M 9982.F.19 (McAllister)