Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This presidential campaign medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1876.The Scovill Company was established in 1802 as a button manufacturer and 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 Rutherford Hayes facing forward. The legend reads: RUTHERFORD B. HAYES FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES/CENTENNIAL 1876 AMERICA.
- Reverse: Bust of William Wheeler facing forward. The legend reads: WM. A. WHEELER FOR VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES/ CENTENNIAL 1876 AMERICA.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- depicted
- Hayes, Rutherford B.
- Wheeler, William A.
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- date made
- ca 1876
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3.1 cm; 1 1/4 in
- Object Name
- medal, political
