Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This 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 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 badge has a hole in the frame so that it could be worn.
- Obverse: Tintype photograph of John C. Breckinridge, labeled J.C. BRECKINRIDGE.
- Reverse: Tintype photograph of Joseph Lane, labeled JOSEPH LANE.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- date made
- ca 1860
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- Physical Description
- tintype (overall material)
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2.4 cm; 15/16 in
- Object Name
- medal, political
