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Lincoln’s top hats were not always of the same design. At his first inauguration in 1860, he wore the lower silk plush hat that had by that time come into fashion.
President Abraham Lincoln’s top hat; Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Transfer from the War Department with permission from Mary Lincoln, 1867. At 6’4” tall, President Abraham ...
Abraham Lincoln — or at least the locomotive celebrating his memory — returned to Lincoln’s hometown of Springfield, Ill., ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Abraham Lincoln’s iconic stove pipe hat is missing from a sculpture along the waterfront in Louisville. Sculptor Ed Hamilton, who designed the work of Lincoln looking out over ...
The statue of Lincoln, showing him 20 years before he was elected President, sits overlooking the Ohio River, much like he wrote about in 1841. His hat sits beside him.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Abraham Lincoln’s iconic stove pipe hat is missing from a sculpture along the waterfront in Louisville. Sculptor Ed Hamilton, who designed the work of Lincoln looking out over ...
A statue of President Abraham Lincoln in Louisville, Kentucky, is missing a bronze top hat after it was pried off of a stone base recently. The hat sat next to a reclining Lincoln and a pair of ...
A Waterfront Park sculpture of Abraham Lincoln is missing its iconic top hat. The bronze hat had been by Lincoln's side, resting on top of a rock, since 2009.
The report said the hat did not appear to be in Lincoln’s size, that it was once sold by a downstate antique shop for just $1 in the 1950s and that descendants of the hat’s original owner were ...
A Waterfront Park sculpture of Abraham Lincoln is missing its iconic top hat. The bronze hat had been by Lincoln's side, resting on top of a rock, since 2009.
The report said the hat did not appear to be in Lincoln’s size, that it was once sold by a downstate antique shop for just $1 in the 1950s and that descendants of the hat’s original owner were ...