Object Details
- depicted
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- Colfax, Schuyler
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Description (Brief)
- This presidential campaign badge was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1868. 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. The colorful pink ring in this badge makes it especially attractive.
- Obverse: Tintype photograph of Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax imbedded into a brass badge.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- ca 1868
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1165
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1165
- Object Name
- medal, political
- Physical Description
- tintype (overall material)
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1.7 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
- related event
- Presidential Campaign of 1868
- Record ID
- nmah_1382158
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-0ba0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
