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President Abraham Lincoln's Top Hat (1865)
1/13/2008

President Abraham Lincoln's Top Hat (1865)

Where do you keep notes to yourself and papers that you want to keep handy? President Lincoln tucked important papers inside his top hat. According to tradition, this is the hat he wore on the night of April 14, 1865 when he went to Ford's Theater.

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