Ulysses S. Grant Commemorative Token
Ulysses S. Grant Commemorative Token
- Description (Brief)
- This token was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut during the early 20th century. Scovill 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 various consumer goods including buttons, daguerreotype mats, and political tokens.
- Obverse: Bust of Ulysses S. Grant facing left. Legend: 18TH PRESIDENT, U.S.A./ 1869-1877/ ULYSSES S. GRANT.
- Reverse: "THE AMERICAN CAESAR"/ "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER"/ SECOND LIEUTENANT IN MEXICAL WAR ROSE RAPIDLY FROM CAPTAIN TO GENERAL OF UNION FORCES IN CIVIL WAR THE SILENT MAN OF APPOMATTOX.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- medal, political
- depicted
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Measurements
- overall: 2.5 cm; in
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1285
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1285
- 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
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Rachel Wheeler
Sun, 2015-03-22 18:45