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Lincoln's hat on display

Updated: January 24, 2013
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SPRINGFIELD -- You can now see Abraham Lincoln's stovepipe hat for yourself. It's on display in the Treasures Gallery at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum for the next six months.

You can also read the note on democracy historians believe Lincoln kept inside the hat. His 204th birthday is February 12.

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