Benjamin Harrison Inaugural Medal
Benjamin Harrison Inaugural Medal
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- Description (Brief)
- This inaugural medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1889. The Scovill Company was established in 1802 as a button manufacturer and 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 Benjamin Harrison facing left. The legend reads: BENJAMIN HARRISON PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.
- Reverse: Image of the United States Capitol with the legend: INAUGURATED MARCH 4, 1889.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- medal, political
- depicted
- Harrison, Benjamin
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Measurements
- overall: 3.8 cm; 1 1/2 in
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1230
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1230
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- Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Scovill Manufacturing Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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