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 1860. 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. There is a hole at the top of the frame to allow for the badge to be strung and worn.
- Obverse: Tintype photograph of Abraham Lincoln set into a brass oval frame. The photo is labeled: ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- ca 1860
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1182
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1182
- Object Name
- medal, political
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- tintype (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 4.2 cm x 3.2 cm; 1 5/8 in x 1 1/4 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_1382175
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-0c65-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
