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This is a composite image that mixes prolific civil war photographer William Brady's January 1864 portrait of the U.S. president with a stock photograph of a cat. A picture of U.S. President ...
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 ...
On the night Lincoln died, he dressed for the theater in a silk top hat, size 7-1/8, from the Washington hatmaker J. Y. Davis, to which he had added a black silk mourning band in memory of his son ...