John C. Breckinridge Campaign Badge
John C. Breckinridge Campaign Badge
- Description (Brief)
- This presidential campaign badge 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 badges. The rim of this badge has a hole so it could be worn.
- Obverse: Tintype of John Breckinridge. The rim’s legend reads: JOHN. C. BRECKINRIDGE 1860.
- Reverse: Tintype of Joseph Lane. The rim’s legend reads: JOSEPH LANE 1860.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- medal, political
- depicted
- Breckinridge, John C.
- Lane, Joseph
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Measurements
- overall: 2.5 cm; in
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1090
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1090
- 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
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