Henry Clay Campaign Medal
date: label: date made
content: 1842 - 1844
name: label: depicted
content: Clay, Henry
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 1842. 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.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse: Bust of Henry Clay facing left.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse: Image of a ship with full sails in the background, and a plow with a sheaf of grain laying over it in the foreground. Legend reads: HENRY CLAY/ THE CHAMPION OF A PROTECTIVE TARIFF.
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: American Enterprise
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content: Scovill Manufacturing Collection
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Scovill, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0296.1303
label: accession number
content: 1981.0296
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0296.1303
objectType: label: Object Name
content: medal, political
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 cm; 1 15/16 in