Horatio Seymour Campaign Medal
Horatio Seymour Campaign Medal
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- Description (Brief)
- This presidential campaign medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1868. The Scovill Company was established in 1802 as a button manufacturer, and is still in business today. Scovill is an important example of early American industrial manufacturing that adapted armory machines to mass-produce a variety of consumer goods including buttons, daguerreotype mats, and campaign badges.
- Obverse: Profile image of Horatio Seymour and Francis P. Blair facing left. Legend reads: SEYMOUR & BLAIR, 1868.
- Reverse: Legend reads: GENERAL AMNESTY, UNIFORM CURRENCY, EQUAL TAXES & EQUAL RIGHTS.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- medal, political
- depicted
- Seymour, Horatio
- Blair, Jr., Francis P.
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Measurements
- overall: 2.8 cm; 1 1/8 in
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1219
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1219
- Presidential Campaign of 1868
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Scovill Manufacturing Collection
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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