Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This presidential campaign medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1872. 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 outer brass rim is ringed with 21 stars and inscribed with the date 1872.
- Obverse: Bust of Horace Greeley facing right. Legend: HORACE GREELEY/1872.
- Reverse: Bust of Benjamin Brown facing right, the legend reads: B. GRATZ BROWN/1872.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- depicted
- Greeley, Horace
- Brown, Benjamin G.
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- date made
- ca 1872
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- Physical Description
- white metal (overall material)
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2.4 cm; 15/16 in
- Object Name
- medal, political
