Grover Cleveland Novelty Pill Container
date: label: date made
content: ca 1892
name: label: depicted
content: Cleveland, Grover
label: maker
content: Scovill Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This political novelty pill container was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1892. 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. Made to look like a coin stack, the container is concave and is supposed to have a screw-on back to become a pill container.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse: Bust of Grover Cleveland facing left. The legend reads: MY STACK ON CLEVELAND.
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: 1981.0296.1232
label: accession number
content: 1981.0296
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0296.1232
objectType: label: Object Name
content: medal, political
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .7 cm x 3.5 cm; 1/4 in x 1 3/8 in