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PHILADELPHIA — For the first time, the Academy of Natural Sciences is displaying a scrapbook that has locks of hair from the first 12 U.S. presidents. It will be on view Saturday through Feb. 18.
The presidential “hair album” was assembled by Peter Arvell Browne, a Philadelphia lawyer and scholar of the natural sciences. Browne also wrote to presidents living during his lifetime — 1762-1860 — and to the families of those who had died. His letters and their responses are included in the book along with the strands of hair.
