Article continues below this ad The hats worn by Abraham Lincoln had a "stovepipe" silhouette. But according to Borgia, the shapes of top hats changed. They became shorter. Some had a bell silhouette.

Last month, as the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum and Library appears to be considering selling Abraham Lincoln's iconic stovepipe hat, we learned something unsettling: experts could not ...

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 ...

No one has been able to refute the hat's authenticity with certainty. Museum officials say the hat belonged to Lincoln. The heirloom is valued at $6.5 million.

A 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 story of the hat was first written in August 1958, when Carbondale resident Clara Waller signed an affidavit in which she said her father-in-law, William Waller, obtained the hat from Lincoln ...

A WBEZ report says findings from the study include that the hat didn't appear to be Lincoln's size. The study also found the hat was at one point sold in the 1950s to a antique shop for just $1 ...

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 ...

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum may lose a few of the famed president's key artifacts -- such as a stovepipe hat Lincoln purportedly wore and the bloodstained gloves he wore on ...

The silk top hat (size 71⁄8 Abraham Lincoln wore to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865. The hat was purchased from Washington hatmaker J. Y. Davis and personalized by Lincoln with a black silk mourning ...

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 ...

Object Details user Lincoln, Abraham maker Davis, J. Y. Description At six feet four inches tall, Lincoln towered over most of his contemporaries. He chose to stand out even more by wearing high top ...