John C. Frémont Campaign Medal
John C. Frémont Campaign Medal
- Description (Brief)
- This campaign medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1856. 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. Frémont facing right. Legend reads: JOHN. C. FREEMONT. FREE SOIL & FREE SPEECH.
- Reverse: Image of eagle with shield, holding a laurel branch and three arrows in its talons. Legend reads: WM. L. DAYTON FREE SPEECH. FREE MEN.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- medal, political
- depicted
- Fremont, John Charles
- referenced
- Dayton, William L.
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Measurements
- overall: 2.8 cm; 1 1/8 in
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1149
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1149
- Presidential Campaign of 1856
- 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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