Ulysses S. Grant Campaign Badge
date: label: date made
content: ca 1868
name: label: depicted
content: Grant, Ulysses S.
label: maker
content: Scovill Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: 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 tintype picture of Grant is hanging from the beak of an eagle. The eagle has a pin on its back so that it could be worn on an article of clothing.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse: Tintype photograph of Ulysses S. Grant, labeled “GRANT” inside a shield-shaped frame.
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: 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: 1981.0296.1167
label: accession number
content: 1981.0296
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0296.1167
objectType: label: Object Name
content: medal, political
label: Object Name
content: badge
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tintype (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3.7 cm; 1 7/16 in