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Season 2 |
| 11 :02x01 - Civil War-Era Submarine; Red Cloud's Pipe; The Edison House (Jun/21/2004) | | Questions for the detectives: Did a Louisiana man's great grandfather help build a Civil War sub? Did a California woman's ancestor befriend the Oglala chief Red Cloud? And did Thomas Edison build a New Jersey concrete house? Detectives include appraiser Elyse Luray, appraiser-auctioneer Wes Cowan and architectural historian Gwendolyn Wright. | | | |
| 12 :02x02 - Monopoly; Japanese Internment Camp Artwork; The Lewis and Clark Cane (Jun/28/2004) | | Investigations include similarities between a Delaware man's 100-year-old board game and Monopoly; 10 postcard-sized watercolors of a World War II-era internment camp for Japanese-Americans; and ties between a Minnesota man's cane and Lewis and Clark. The board game predates Monopoly by some 30 years (and was devised, its owner says, by the anticapitalist economist Henry George). The watercolors were painted on the back of an internment evacuation notice. And an expert says that the cane is too elegant to have been taken on the Lewis and Clark expedition, but maybe the detectives can find other ties between Lewis and Clark and the Minnesota man's family. | | | |
| 13 :02x03 - LCT103/WW2 Land Craft; The Abolitionist Flag; Mail Order Brides (Jul/05/2004) | | Questions for the detectives involve a Lake Superior barge that might have seen duty on D-Day and an abolitionist banner belonging to two Michigan brothers. Then there's a series of 19th-century photos of young women. Were they advertisements for mail-order brides? The photos list the name of an “agency” in Chicago, where sociologist Tukufu Zuberi finds evidence that they could be. He also finds evidence that things might not have been on the up and up. | | | |
| 14 :02x04 - The First Movie Studio; UFA Light; King Kong Camera (Jul/12/2004) | | Movie-related questions for the detectives. Among them: Was a collector's movie camera used to film “King Kong”? Was the L.A. area's first movie studio located in the unglamorous Lincoln Heights neighborhood? And was there a tie between mogul Harry Warner and a German studio that made Nazi-propaganda films? That would be surprising because Warner, a Jew, was “an outspoken antifascist,” says detective Elyse Luray. | | | |
| 15 :02x05 - Dueling Pistols; Evelyn Nesbit Portrait; Little Big Horn Bayonet (Jul/19/2004) | | Questions for the detectives involve an 1859 duel over slavery, a portrait of a young woman by a renowned early-20th-century illustrator and a bayonet that might have been at Custer's Last Stand. The duel was fought between two prominent Californians and its outcome (the antislavery proponent lost) could have figured in the Golden State's decision to remain in the Union. The portrait's owner suspects that the woman depicted is Evelyn Nesbitt, “the first supermodel of the 20th century.” And the bayonet belonged to Gen. Edward Godfrey, who was a private in the Civil War and volunteered for duty in World War I, when he was in his 70s. | | | |
| 16 :02x06 - Preston Brook's Riding Crop; Home of Lincoln Assassination Plot; Revolutionary War Cannon (Aug/02/2004) | | Questions involve a Revolutionary War-era cannon that might have sparked the war, a Greenwich village townhouse where the plot to kill Lincoln might have been hatched, and a riding crop given to the southern congressman who caned antislavery senator Charles Sumner in 1856. The cannon is said to have been stolen by the rebels from the British---who went to Concord to retrieve it on April 19, 1775. An actor known to have had contact with John Wilkes Booth lived in the Federal townhouse, which had become a boarding house by the 1860s. And the family of the southern congressman (Preston Brooks) believes the riding crop had been given to him by Jefferson Davis. | | | |
| 17 :02x07 - Ventriloquist Dummy; Witch's House; Poems (Aug/16/2004) | | How did a black ventriloquist affect early-20th-century race relations? Were a San Francisco Chinese-American woman's ancestors interned in the Angel Island detention center? (And did her great-grandfather die there?) And was an old house in Essex County, Mass., once owned by a woman accused of witchcraft? The house does sit on land once owned by a woman hanged for witchcraft in 1692. But is it that old? Detectives include appraisers Wesley Cowan and Elyse Luray, Columbia University architectural-history professor Gwendolyn Wright and University of Pennsylvania sociologist Tukufu Zuberi. | | | |
| 18 :02x08 - Bonnie & Clyde; Revolutionary War Poem; Portrait of George Washington (Aug/23/2004) | | Were five spent bullets owned by a Wisconsin woman taken from the bodies of Bonnie and Clyde? Was a poem owned by an Oregon man written by a Revolutionary War POW? And did Gilbert Stuart draw a Maryland family's portrait of George Washington? The bullet owner's question stems from the fact that her grandfather-in-law, a Dallas “ballistician,” investigated Bonnie and Clyde in 1934, the year they died. The poem was signed by a Daniel Goodhue. Can he be traced? As for the Washington portrait, the fact that Stuart seldom made drawings is only one problem with it. | | | |
| 19 :02x09 - Lost Gold Ship; John Hunt Morgan Saddle; Cesar Chavez Banner (Sep/06/2004) | | Questions for the detectives concern the 1897 Klondike gold rush, a Civil War-era saddle and California farmworkers-union leader Cesar Chavez. Is a shipwreck that an Alaska environmentalist finds in a secluded delta the ship that “launched” the gold rush? (Actually, it carried the first men who struck gold back to Seattle.) It sank 13 years later. As for the saddle, its owner thinks it belonged to John Hunt Morgan, “the south's most notorious guerrilla general,” says detective Wes Cowan, a descendant of one of Morgan's “raiders.” And the Chavez segment concerns a banner in the labor archive at San Francisco State University. Was it carried on Chavez' 1966 march from Delano, Cal., to Sacramento in support of efforts of organize grape pickers? | | | |
| 20 :02x10 - Pretty Boy Floyd Handgun; Paul Cuffee Muster Roll; Pop Lloyd Baseball Field (Sep/13/2004) | | Questions involve “Pretty Boy” Floyd, Negro League baseball great John Henry “Pop” Lloyd and a Revolutionary War muster roll. A California man owns a handgun that was given to him by his uncle, who said that Floyd had given it to him in Missouri in 1934 for acting as lookout for the notorious bank robber. As for Lloyd, why was a baseball stadium in Atlantic City that opened in 1949 named after him? And the muster, from Falmouth, Mass., in 1780, lists Paul Cuffee as one of its soldiers. Is it authentic? And is the Paul Cuffee listed the man who was a noted black businessman and patriot? | | | |
| 21 :02x11 - Charlie Parker Saxophone; Prison Plaque; Koranic School Book (Sep/20/2004) | | Questions involve bebop legend Charlie Parker, a World War I plaque in a Philadelphia prison and a 200-year-old American schoolbook that contains verses from the Koran. Or does it? Most of the wording doesn't match translations available at the time. But there's no doubting the intellectual prowess of the young women who copied them. The plaque leads to a warm story about a longtime prison warden seeking ways to rehabilitate his “boys.” As for Parker, a California woman's father, a jazz musician, owned an alto saxophone that, he told her, had belonged to “Bird.” Did it? It's not a top-of-the-line instrument, but that doesn't bother appraiser Dan Matzger. “The saxophone isn't as important as the saxophone player,” he tells detective Wes Cowan. | | | |
| 22 :02x12 - Body in the Basement; Newport U-Boat; Shippen Golf Club (Sep/27/2004) | | Questions involve a 17th-century skeleton found in Maryland, a pair of World War II-era propellers and an antique putter that might have belonged to early pro John Shippen. Archaelogists found the skeleton scrunched up---and buried beneath trash---in what was once a cellar near Annapolis. “There's a dark side to this,” suspects detective Gwen Wright. The propellers could very well be from a Nazi U-boat. Was it the one that sunk a U.S. Navy ship off Portland, Maine, in April 1945? The sons of a sailor who died on the ship want to know. And did Shippen, a black, use that putter when he played (at age 16) in the 1896 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club on Long Island? | | | |
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