Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation Owes Big $$$

[Steve]

(06-22-2018 12:11 PM)davg2000 Wrote:  This is not a White House hat. The two White House hats that we have (one at Hildene and the other at the Smithsonian) were taller. The ALPLM has never claimed that Lincoln wore this hat as president.

If the hat's provenance is correct and it did originally come from William Waller, than it would've had to have been given to him in Washington by President Lincoln. Waller had been a Democrat who voted for Douglass in the 1860 election. Waller didn't become a supporter of Lincoln until after the Civil War began. According to the news articles about the hat, affidavits used for its provenance say that Waller was given it “during the Civil War in Washington”.