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.
- Obverse: Tintype photograph of George B. McClellan imbedded into a circular brass frame. The tintype is labeled “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: 1.2 cm; 1/2 in
- Object Name
- medal, political
