Grover Cleveland Novelty Pill Container
- Description (Brief)
- This political novelty pill container was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1892. 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 campaign medals. Made to look like a coin stack, the container is concave and is supposed to have a screw-on back to become a pill container.
- Obverse: Bust of Grover Cleveland facing left. The legend reads: MY STACK ON CLEVELAND.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- depicted
- Cleveland, Grover
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Measurements
- overall: .7 cm x 3.5 cm; 1/4 in x 1 3/8 in
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1232
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1232
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- 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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