Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This presidential campaign badge was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1868. 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 medals. The photo is set into a six-pointed star that was meant to be worn on clothing.
- Obverse: Tintype photograph of Horatio Seymour that is labeled “SEYMOUR.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- depicted
- Seymour, Horatio
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- date made
- ca 1868
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- tintype (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3.2 cm x 2.8 cm; 1 1/4 in x 1 1/8 in
- Object Name
- medal, political
