Presidential Campaign Luggage Tag
- Description (Brief)
- The Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut produced this luggage tag around 1904. Scovill 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, medals, coins, and tokens.
- This Presidential campaign novelty is a shield-shaped luggage tag that bears the inscription “ROOSEVELT AND FAIRBANKS.” Theodore Roosevelt and Charles Fairbanks were elected President and Vice President in 1904.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- referenced
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Fairbanks, Charles Warren
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Measurements
- overall: 4.6 cm x 4.3 cm; 1 13/16 in x 1 11/16 in
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1241
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1241
- related event
- Presidential Campaign of 1904
- 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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