Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This presidential campaign badge was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1864. 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.
- This campaign badge features a tintype photograph of George B. McClellan in a circular brass frame. The tintype is labeled “G.B. M’CLELLAN.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- depicted
- McClellan, George B.
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- date made
- ca 1864
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- Physical Description
- tintype (overall material)
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 cm; 13/16 in
- Object Name
- medal, political
