Object Details
- depicted
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Description (Brief)
- This presidential campaign badge was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1864. The Scovill Company was established in 1802 as a button manufacturer that is still in business today. Scovill was an early industrial American innovator, adapting armory manufacturing processes to mass-produce a variety of consumer goods including buttons, daguerreotype mats, and campaign badges.
- Obverse: Tintype photograph of Abraham Lincoln set into a circular bronze frame, the image is labeled “A. LINCOLN.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- ca 1864
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1114
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1114
- Object Name
- medal, political
- Physical Description
- tintype (overall material)
- bronze (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1.8 cm; 11/16 in
- place made
- United States: Connecticut, Waterbury
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Scovill Manufacturing Collection
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1379952
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-0902-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
