Winfield Scott Medal
Winfield Scott Medal
- Description (Brief)
- This medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1852. 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. This medal has a hole at the top so that it could be strung and worn.
- Obverse: Bust of Winfield Scott facing left. The legend reads: MAJ. GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT.
- Reverse: Legend reads: CHIPPEWA/ LUNDYS LANE/ CERRO GORDO /CONTRERAS/ CHURUBUSCO/ CHAPULTEPEC /MEXICO.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- depicted
- Scott, Winfield
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Measurements
- overall: 2.6 cm; 1 in
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1194
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1194
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Scovill Manufacturing Collection
- Military
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
