Abraham Lincoln Campaign Medal
- Description (Brief)
- This medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1860. 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 medals.
- Obverse: Bust of Abraham Lincoln, and is inscribed around the rim with the text “Republican Candidate Abraham Lincoln 1860.”
- Reverse: Eagle with a shield, clutching three arrows and an olive branch in its talons. The legend reads: LIBERTY UNION AND EQUALITY.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- medal, political
- depicted
- Lincoln, Abraham
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Measurements
- overall: 2.8 cm; 1 1/8 in
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1122
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1122
- related event
- Presidential Campaign of 1860
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Scovill Manufacturing Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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