Photographic Times Commemorative Medal
date: label: date made
content: 1889
name: label: maker
content: Scovill Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut in 1889.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 medals. The medal has a hole so it could be worn.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse: Bust of Louis Daguerre facing left. The legend reads: PRESENTED BY/ 1839-1889/ THE PHOTOGRAPHIC TIMES
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse: The legend reads: SOUVENIR OF THE SEMICENTENNIAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY/ AUGUST 1889
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Waterbury
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content: Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: Scovill Manufacturing Collection
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content: Photography
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Scovill, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0296.1610
label: accession number
content: 1981.0296
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0296.1610
objectType: label: Object Name
content: medal
label: Object Name
content: advertising token
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: white metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4.9 cm; 1 15/16 in