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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 ...
The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt, so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction. The ...
Treasured artifacts associated with President Abraham Lincoln were on the auction block Wednesday, separated from a ...
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 ...
Items worn by President Abraham Lincoln the night he was assassinated have fetched more than €6 million at an auction to pay ...
A Chicago auction of Abraham Lincoln's personal items, including bloodstained gloves from the night of his assassination, ...
The auction — representing 10 percent of the Lincoln Presidential Foundation’s collection — includes the gloves Lincoln carried the night of his assassination.
open image in gallery A piece of Abraham Lincoln’s coat ... the crown jewel of the group — a stovepipe hat, appraised at $6 million, that Lincoln was said to have given as a gift to a southern ...
"The proceeds from the sale will be used to satisfy our obligation to retire the outstanding loan balance from the Foundation's purchase of the collection," the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Foundation ...
The same is true of Abraham Lincoln, who, although never renowned ... Maybe he eventually started stashing them in his iconic top hat rather than his work pants. Regardless, like his legacy ...
Or does the president define the hat? Stephen L. Carter 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 ...