Abraham Lincoln Campaign Badge
Abraham Lincoln 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. This badge likely had a pin originally on its back, so it could be worn on an article of clothing.
- Obverse: Tintype photograph of Abraham Lincoln. The photo is labeled “A. Lincoln.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- depicted
- Lincoln, Abraham
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Measurements
- overall: 1.8 cm; 11/16 in
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1106
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1106
- 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
