Horatio Seymour Campaign Badge
Horatio Seymour Campaign Badge
- Description (Brief)
- This presidential campaign badge was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company around 1868. 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.
- Obverse: Tintype photograph of Horatio Seymour, labeled “H. SEYMOUR.” Legend reads: OUR CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT.
- Reverse: Tintype photograph of Francis Blair labeled “F.P. BLAIR.” The legend around the rim reads: FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- depicted
- Seymour, Horatio
- Blair, Jr., Francis P.
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Measurements
- overall: 2.8 cm; 1 1/8 in
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1178
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1178
- related event
- Presidential Campaign of 1868
- 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
