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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A stovepipe hat worn by Abraham Lincoln is going on display at the Springfield library and museum that bear his name.
Lincoln’s stovepipe made him an easy mark for caricaturists, and many drawings have survived in which the hat is the viewer’s means for identifying 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 ...
This beaver-skin stovepipe hat purportedly belonged to Abraham Lincoln, but its provenance is now the topic of fierce debate.
The reconstituted Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum board of trustees will try again to authenticate a stovepipe hat that could have belonged to the 16th president.
Abraham Lincoln’s stovepipe hat of questioned authenticity is photographed at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois, on June 14, 2007.
A new study has found no evidence to corroborate that a beaver-skin stovepipe hat — for years a centerpiece of Illinois’ Abraham Lincoln museum — ever actually belonged to the 16th U.S ...
The article reported that "a new study has found no evidence to corroborate that a beaver-skin stovepipe hat" ever belonged to President Abraham Lincoln. The main evidence cited was that the hat ...
FILE - In this June 14, 2007 file photo, Abraham Lincoln's iconic stovepipe hat of questioned authenticity is photographed at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill.