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 badges. The tintype picture of Grant is hanging from the beak of an eagle. The eagle has a pin on its back so that it could be worn on an article of clothing.
- Obverse: Tintype photograph of Ulysses S. Grant, labeled “GRANT” inside a shield-shaped frame.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- depicted
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- date made
- ca 1868
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- Physical Description
- tintype (overall material)
- white metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3.7 cm; 1 7/16 in
- Object Name
- medal, political
- badge
