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Special: Politically Collect (2008)

Electing and Collecting: These two great American traditions combine in one historic hour! ANTIQUES ROADSHOW’s Politically Collect commemorates political battles long past, with treasures that hail from red states and blue.

Kennedy and Johnson Archive

More letters and photos from the collection of JFK's White House photographer (Orlando, Hour 3)

Want to Meet General Sickles?:
A Rapscallion's Résumé

A look at the life of Civil War General Daniel Sickles proves they just don't make a good old-fashioned scoundrel like they used to. (Albuquerque, Hour 2)


Eleanor Roosevelt Archive

An interactive collection of White House mementos from Eleanor Roosevelt's friend and personal maid. (Philadelphia, Hour 3)

See John Quincy Adams' Diary Online

The Mass. Historical Society has digitized 51 volumes of Adams' personal diary, which he kept for almost 70 years.


Benjamin Harrison Presidential Rocker, ca. 1890
Leslie Keno

$5,000
Politically Collect


Revolutionary War Discharge Signed by George Washington
Stephen Massey

$6,000-$10,000
Politically Collect


Two 1947 American Political Cartoons
Colleene Fesko

$300-$500
Politically Collect


John Quincy Adams' House of Representatives Chair
Wendell Garrett

$4,000-$6,000
Politically Collect


Early 19th-Century George Washington Mantel Clock
Gordon Converse

$50,000-$80,000
Politically Collect


20th-Century American Political Buttons
Rudy Franchi

$2,000-$3,000
Politically Collect


World War I Binoculars & Franklin Delano Roosevelt Letter
Selby Kiffer

$2,000-$3,000
Politically Collect


19th-Century Necklace with Mary Todd Lincoln Provenance
Berj Zavian

$2,500-$3,500
Politically Collect


1848 Zachary Taylor & Lewis Cass Campaign Drum
William Guthman

$10,000-$15,000
Politically Collect


19th-Century Folk Art Horse & Rider
C. Wesley Cowan

$40,000-$60,000
Politically Collect


Samuel Osgood Miniature Portrait, ca. 1790
Alan Fausel

$10,000-$15,000
Politically Collect


Jimmy Carter Affidavit from the 1976 Presidential Campaign
Mike Gutierrez

$4,000-$5,000
Politically Collect


Haviland White House Bowls, ca. 1880
David Lackey

$7,000-$9,000
Politically Collect


Eleanor Roosevelt Archive, ca. 1941
Ian Ehling

$8,000-$12,000
Politically Collect


Autographed Diploma with 20th-Century Presidential Signatures
Christopher Coover

$7,000-$10,000
Politically Collect


John F. Kennedy & Lyndon B. Johnson Signed Photographs
Francis Wahlgren

$75,000
Politically Collect


Congressional Desk and Chair, ca. 1857
Brian Witherell

$40,000
Politically Collect


Civil War Autograph Collection
Rafael Eledge

$75,000-$100,000
Politically Collect




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