Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This presidential campaign badge was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1860. The Scovill Company was established in 1802 as a button manufacturer that is still in business today. Scovill is an important example of early American industrial manufacturing that adapted armory machines to mass-produce a variety of consumer goods including buttons, daguerreotype mats, and campaign badges. This tintype is in a circular bronze frame, and there is a hole in the top of the frame allowing the badge to be worn.
- Obverse: Tintype photograph of Stephen A. Douglas, labeled “STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS.”
- Reverse: Tintype photograph of Herschel V. Johnson labeled “HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- depicted
- Douglas, Stephen A.
- Johnson, Herschel V.
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- date made
- ca 1860
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- Physical Description
- tintype (overall material)
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2.5 cm; in
- Object Name
- medal, political
