Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- The Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut produced this luggage tag around 1908. Scovill 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, medals, coins, and tokens.
- This Presidential campaign novelty is a square luggage tag that bears the inscription: TAFT/1908/SHERMAN. William Taft and James Sherman were elected President and Vice President in 1908.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- referenced
- Taft, William H.
- Sherman, James Schoolcraft
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- date made
- ca 1908
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3.6 cm x 3.7 cm; 1 7/16 in x 1 7/16 in
- Object Name
- tag, luggage
