Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This presidential campaign medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1848.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 campaign medals.
- Obverse: Bust of Zachary Taylor facing left. Legend: MAJOR GENL. Z. TAYLOR NEVER SURRENDERS.
- Reverse: Eagle perched on a plaque surrounded by four flags and two swords. Plaque reads: PALO ALTO/RESACA DE LA PALMA/MONTEREY/BUENA VISTA. Legend: I ASK NO FAVORS & I SHRINK FROM NO RESPONSIBILITY.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- depicted
- Taylor, Zachary
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- date made
- ca 1848
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 4.1 cm; 1 5/8 in
- Object Name
- medal, political
