Ulysses S. Grant Campaign Badge
- Description (Brief)
- This star-shaped badge 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.
- This badge features a tintype photograph of Ulysses S. Grant set into a star-shaped brass badge. This badge likely would have originally had a pin on the back so it could be worn.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- medal, political
- depicted
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- Colfax, Schuyler
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Measurements
- overall: 1.7 cm; 11/16 in
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1097
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1097
- 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
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