Horace Greeley Campaign Medal
date: label: date made
content: ca 1872
name: label: depicted
content: Greeley, Horace
label: depicted
content: Brown, Benjamin G.
label: maker
content: Scovill Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This presidential campaign medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1872. 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 and campaign medals. This medal has a hole so that it could be worn.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse: Bust of Horace Greeley, facing forward. Legend: FOR PRESIDENT HORACE GREELEY.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse: Labeled photographs of Greeley and Benjamin Brown set into the medal. There is a spread-winged eagle at the top, with the legend “President” and “VICE PRES’T.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Waterbury
topic: label: related event
content: Presidential Campaign of 1872
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content: Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: Scovill Manufacturing Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Scovill, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0296.1174
label: accession number
content: 1981.0296
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0296.1174
objectType: label: Object Name
content: medal, political
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tintype (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3.4 cm; 1 5/16 in