You may not know this, but beloved children’s book author Dr. Seuss—or Theodor Seuss Geisel—was a great lover and collector of hats.
The owner of hundreds of hats of every description, Geisel kept them in a closet hidden behind the bookcase in his San Diego home.
Random House Children’s Books, longtime publisher of the Dr. Seuss books, has collaborated with Dr. Seuss Enterprises on a traveling exhibition of the writer’s whacky hats, which are being displayed to the public for the first time.
The hats—which include a striped, red-and-white stovepipe hat that looks exactly like the one “The Cat in a Hat” wears—is now on display at the New York Public Library.
Dr Seuss in a San Diego State band
[via The New York Times]