Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This presidential campaign medal 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 medals.
- Obverse: Bust of Stephen Douglas facing forward. The legend reads: STEPHEN A DOUGLAS.
- Reverse: The legend reads: DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY/THE CHAMPION OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- depicted
- Douglas, Stephen A.
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- date made
- ca 1860
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2.8 cm; 1 1/8 in
- Object Name
- medal, political
