Dylan Hayley Leavitt
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Tips on Collecting Vintage Clothing
Study before you buy. Knowledge can save you from expensive mistakes.
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Coca-Cola's Sundblom Santa
Why was this Haddon Sundblom oil painting cut from its original canvas and repainted? Find out more in a letter from Coca-Cola!
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
Learn more about the Dreyfus Affair, an important episode of French legal history that took place during the time that Oscar Wilde lived in Paris.
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Georges Seurat: From Pen to Pointillism
Take a closer look at Seurat's 1884 masterpiece, "Sunday Afternoon on the Grande Jatte."
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Psychedelic Style at the Apple Boutique
The store was "a beautiful place where beautiful people [could] buy beautiful things.”
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Read Excerpts from a Rare Civil War Diary
Read transcripts from the 1865 diary of a Civil War guard.
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Miranda Mary Piker: Dahl's Lost Poem
A poem called "Miranda Mary Piker" was left out of the original edition of Roald Dahl's 1964 classic, *Charlie and the Chocolate Factory*. Read it here!
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Huey Long's Life and Legacy
How did Huey P. Long stay in power amid scandals and accusations of corruption and why is his shadow still so hard to escape over eighty years after his death?
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Seminole Chief Billy Bowlegs
A powder horn with powerful provenance found at the Little Rock ROADSHOW event in July 2015 is one of very few known relics remaining from the Seminole Wars. Learn more!
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A Trekkie's Dream: Gene Roddenberry's Pilot
When ROADSHOW visited Seattle in August 2012, appraisers discovered items ranging from indigenous artifacts to covetable jewelry. A field trip up the Space Needle also seemed to inspire space age themes at the appraiser tables — in this instance, a guest named Theresa brought in an original STAR TREK treatment and script.
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An Interview with Art Spiegelman & Bob Schneider
ROADSHOW talked with Art Spiegelman and Bob Schneider to find out more about the origins of two pieces of cover art and an original proposal for Whole Grains, a book of quotes, appraised at the 2014 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW event in New York City.
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On Pins and Needles: A Rockwell Model’s Reflection
A former Norman Rockwell model remembers her childhood years posing for the painter.
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The Real Maker's Mark
Appraiser Leigh Keno differentiates between the real and fake.
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The Mysteries of Golf: What's In A Swing?
Can anyone solve the mysteries of golf? John Falter explores a plethora of swings in his Saturday Evening Post cover, "Golf Driving Range."
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Slideshow: World's Fair Design and Architecture, Symbols of Solidarity
Learn more about the symbolic, unifying structures that have symbolized progress, development and technological achievement from past World's Fairs.
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"Oh, the Humanity!" and the Hindenburg
Over the years, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW has uncovered a number of relic items that survived the infamous *Hindenburg* explosion in 1937. Here you can listen to the unforgettable eyewitness radio broadcast from the scene of the disaster.
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Slideshow: Bakelite or Fakelite? Learn the Difference!
Made of a combination of phenol and formaldehyde, Bakelite is a type of plastic that became popular during the 1930s and 40s as a material not only for jewelry, but for other consumer goods like hairbrushes and radios, too. Here are a couple of helpful hints from our experts, including appraiser [Gloria Lieberman](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/appraisers/gloria-lieberman/), when testing your favorite plastic accessories!
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ROADSHOW's Retro Thanksgiving Tips
Nostalgia hits at Thanksgiving, especially at the dinner table with family and friends. Whether it's by setting out the silver or stirring up an old recipe, using vintage pieces can add just the right dash of warmth to your holiday meal. Go for retro to give a sense of humor and brighten up the table; mix in some primary colors or a fun pattern to your place settings. Accessible and easily collected, vintage kitchenware can spark a fond childhood memory or help build new ones with the family this Thanksgiving. From classy to cozy, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW has some helpful hints for keeping your kitchen from looking cookie-cutter this Turkey Day.
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A Translation of the Past
Check out an appraisal of a mysterious Chinese bronze vessel.
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A Tiffany Presentation Pitcher for a Family Hero
Over the course of his steamboating career in the mid-19th century, Captain William H. Laughton saved 11 lives. One of these heroic efforts rose to the surface at the ANTIQUES ROADSHOW event in Rapid City, South Dakota, in the form of Tiffany & Company silver.
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Slideshow: The Old Idaho State Pen
Go "behind bars" and see photos from ROADSHOW's June 2013 field trip to the Old Penitentiary in Boise, Idaho!
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Slideshow: Joseph Henry Sharp's Taos Inspiration
Joseph Henry Sharp was inspired by his surroundings in Taos, NM. In this slideshow, A ROADSHOW guest uncovers the details of his covetable painting in Myrtle Beach.
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To the Point: Earhart's Prenuptial Letter to Putnam
Read a letter from Amelia Earhart to George Putnam before their marriage!
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Slideshow: Matching Federal Bowfront Servers
Check out the twin to this bowfront server from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston!
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Art Inspiring Art: Murano Glass
In Venice, a city known for its robust glassmaking history, the Gallerie dell'Accademia is home to *The Annunciation*, an Italian Renaissance painting by Paolo Veronese (1528-1588) depicting the scene when the Virgin Mary is told that she is carrying the child of God. Rich in color and golden light, the scene primarily depicts icons of the divine. But to the left of Mary's figure, viewers can spot a small translucent vessel — a vase whose delicate and difficult-to-produce form inspired glass designer Vittorio Zecchin in 1921.
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Art Pottery & The Imitation Game
The difference in value between the real deal and an imitator can be thousands of dollars.
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Subject Matters: Intimacy in John Biggers' Drawings
Biggers' two charcoal studies capture their subject with such poise and intimacy that she seems to become a real person
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A Full-Fledged Finger Mask
Check out a full-fledged example of a Yu'pik dance fan.
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Slideshow: March of Dimes Supporters
A ROADSHOW guest in Myrtle Beach shared her memories of being a poster child for the March of Dimes in the 1950s.
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The Portrait of Beatrice Cenci
Who was Beatrice Cenci and why is her portrait one of the most copied? ANTIQUES ROADSHOW takes a look at one of the most famous trials of the sixteenth-century.
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Gallery: Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
The museum was founded in 1990 in Kansas City, Missouri, the place where the Negro National League was founded in 1920.
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Tolkien's Middle Earth Travels to the Midwest
While a professor at Oxford University in the mid-1950s, author and scholar J.R.R. Tolkien worked with William B. Ready, director of libraries at Marquette University, to negotiate the sale of archive material related to some of his now-classic novels. Read a transcript of the letter below, and get a close-up look at Tolkien's distinctive handwriting.
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Wanted Posters: Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Examine a remarkably extensive collection of wanted posters for Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and many other notorious criminals from over 100 years ago.
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California Gold Rush Letters
First-person accounts from a life on the wagon train
