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Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president. At 6-foot-4, he would stand out even today, and he certainly towered over the men and women of his era. The top hat he habitually wore in public made him ...
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 ...
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 ...
Illinois’ state historian says he can’t confirm whether a stovepipe hat that was once the crown jewel of Springfield’s Abraham Lincoln presidential museum actually belonged to the nation’s ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A top hat that's part of an Abraham Lincoln statue at Waterfront Park has been stolen. Ed Hamilton Studios and Visitors Center posted, ...
A large bronze top hat is missing from a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Louisville, Kentucky’s Waterfront Park.Police are now investigating the disappearance of the hat, Louisville Metro Police ...
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 ...
In conjunction with the February celebration of the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, ... “Abe Lincoln’s Hat,” an illustrated account of the adventures of our nation’s 16th President, ...
VICTIMS. SO FAR, THOUGH, NO ARRESTS. AND NEW TONIGHT, POLICE IN LOUISVILLE ARE ASKING FOR THE PUBLIC’S HELP FINDING ABE LINCOLN’S HAT. THE STATUE OF OUR NATION’S 16TH PRESIDENT WAS DEDICATED ...