Major Robert Anderson Token
date: label: date made
content: mid 19th century
name: label: depicted
content: Anderson, Robert
label: maker
content: Scovill Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This advertising badge was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut during the mid-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 campaign medals.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse: Melainotype photograph of Major Robert Anderson facing forward. The text reads: OUR FLAG'S PROTECTOR. MAJ. ANDERSON.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse: bears the text: ABBOT & COMPANY, MELAINOTYPE PORTRAITS, PICTURES, BUSINESS CARDS, Medals, &c./ WATERBURY, CONN.--- 143 NASSAU-ST. N.Y.
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: Military
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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: 1981.0296.1251
label: accession number
content: 1981.0296
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0296.1251
objectType: label: Object Name
content: medal, personal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: melainotype (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.5 cm; in