Robert Fulton Commemorative Medal
date: label: date made
content: late 19th century
name: label: depicted
content: Fulton, Robert
label: maker
content: Scovill Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut produced this medal during the second half of the 19th century. 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 medals.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse: Bust of Robert Fulton facing forward. The legend reads: ROBERT FULTON/BORN 1765 DIED 1815.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse: The legend reads: STEAM NAVIGATION WAS FIRST ESTABLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES ON THE HUDSON RIVER 1807/ ALFRED G. ROBINSON'S HISTORICAL SERIES No. 2
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Scovill, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0296.1572
label: accession number
content: 1981.0296
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0296.1572
objectType: label: Object Name
content: token
label: Object Name
content: medal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: white metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3.5 cm; 1 3/8 in