Henry Clay Campaign Medal
Henry Clay Campaign Medal
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- Description (Brief)
- This presidential campaign medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1842. 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 Henry Clay facing left.
- Reverse: Image of a ship with full sails in the background, and a plow with a sheaf of grain laying over it in the foreground. Legend reads: HENRY CLAY/ THE CHAMPION OF A PROTECTIVE TARIFF.
- Object Name
- medal, political
- date made
- 1842 - 1844
- depicted
- Clay, Henry
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- place made
- United States: Connecticut, Waterbury
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 cm; 1 15/16 in
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1303
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1303
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Industry & Manufacturing
- American Enterprise
- Scovill Manufacturing Collection
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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