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Lincoln’s top hat


One of the Smithsonian’s most treasured icons is this top hat, worn by Abraham Lincoln to Ford’s Theatre on the night of his assassination.



Division of Social History, Political History
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Behring Center
Transfer from the U.S. War Department

 

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