Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut during the 1840s. 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 William Henry Harrison facing right. The legend reads: HONOR WHERE HONOR'S DUE TO THE HERO OF TIPPECANOE/ GEN WILLIAM H. HARRISON.
- Reverse: Image of the Bunker Hill Monument in the center, the legend reads: BUNKER HILL. A NATION’s GRATITUDE.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- depicted
- Harrison, William Henry
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- date made
- ca 1840
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- Physical Description
- white metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3.8 cm; 1 1/2 in
- Object Name
- medal, political
