Ulysses S. Grant Campaign Medal
- Description (Brief)
- This presidential campaign medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1868. The Scovill Company was established in 1802 as a button manufacturer that 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 badges.
- Obverse: Bust of Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax facing left, the legend reads: GRANT & COLFAX 1868.
- Reverse: A wreath around the rim, with a legend that reads: “LET US HAVE PEACE."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- medal, political
- depicted
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- Colfax, Schuyler
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Measurements
- overall: 2.8 cm; 1 1/8 in
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1086
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1086
- subject
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Scovill Manufacturing Collection
- event
- Presidential Campaign of 1868
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
- Scovill Manufacturing Collection
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- Additional Media
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