Stephen Douglas Campaign Medal
Stephen Douglas Campaign Medal
- Description (Brief)
- This presidential campaign medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1860. 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 Stephen Douglas facing left. Legend reads: DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE Stephen A. Douglas / 1860.
- Reverse: An image of an eagle with shield, clutching arrows and an olive branch in its talons. Legend reads: LIBERTY UNION AND EQUALITY.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- depicted
- Douglas, Stephen A.
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Measurements
- overall: 2.8 cm; 1 1/8 in
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1225
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1225
- related event
- Presidential Campaign of 1860
- 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
