Horace Greeley Campaign Medal
Horace Greeley Campaign Medal
- Description (Brief)
- This presidential campaign medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1872. 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 Horace Greeley facing right. The legend reads: HORACE GREELEY.
- Reverse: Bust of Benjamin Brown facing right. The legend reads: B GRATZ BROWN above.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- depicted
- Greeley, Horace
- Brown, Benjamin G.
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Measurements
- overall: 2.4 cm; 15/16 in
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1160
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1160
- related event
- Presidential Campaign of 1872
- 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
