Object Details
- depicted
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- Colfax, Schuyler
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Description (Brief)
- This presidential campaign medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1868. The Scovill Company was established in 1802 as a button manufacturer, and 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: Bust of Ulysses S. Grant facing forward, the legend reads: GENERAL U. S. GRANT 1868.
- Reverse: Bust of Schuyler Colfax facing forward, the legend reads: SCHUYLER COLFAX 1868.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- ca 1868
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1070
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1070
- Object Name
- medal, political
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .5 cm x 2.8 cm; 3/16 in x 1 1/8 in
- place made
- United States: Connecticut, Waterbury
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Military
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Scovill Manufacturing Collection
- National Museum of American History
- related event
- Presidential Campaign of 1868
- Record ID
- nmah_1379896
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-0707-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
