John C. Breckinridge Campaign Medal
John C. Breckinridge 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 John C. Breckinridge facing left. Legend reads: FOR PRESIDENT JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE OF KY.
- Reverse: Image of the White House, with the legend: PRESIDENTS HOUSE.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- medal, political
- depicted
- Breckinridge, John C.
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Measurements
- overall: 2.1 cm; 13/16 in
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1124
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1124
- 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
