Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This commemorative medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut in 1896. 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 medals.
- Obverse: Image of Princeton’s Nassau Hall. The legend reads: AVLA NASSOVICA MDCCCXCVI
- Reverse: The legend reads: DE/ISVB NVMINE/VICET/QVOD ANTEA FVIT/ COLLEGIVM/ NEOCAESARIENSE/ NVNC ANNIS+CL+IMPLETIS/ VNIVERSITAS/ PRINCETONIENSIS/ SAECVLVM SPECTAT/ NOVVM
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- date made
- 1896
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- Physical Description
- bronze (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7.6 cm; 3 in
- Object Name
- medal
