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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 ...
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 ...
Jesse Ruiz in a June 5 email. Since 2012, uncertainty over the validity of the beaver-skin stovepipe hat has been a thorn in the side of the private Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation ...
At 6’4” tall, President Abraham Lincoln towered over most of his contemporaries. He chose to stand out even more by wearing high top hats. He acquired this one from Washington hat maker J.Y. Davis.
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 ...
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, "someone stole Old Abe's Top Hat ...
(CNN) — For more than a decade, a large bronze top hat has rested next to a stately statue of Abraham Lincoln sitting on ... and they sit on him and take pictures by him and sit there and ...
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 ...