NELSON MANDELA SHAKING HANDS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. PHOTOGRAPH [Signed by Mandela]

Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1998. Color photograph measuring 12" x 8.5". In Very Good minus condition. Photo features Nelson Mandela shaking hands with Dr. Henry "Skip" Louis Gates, Jr. on the day of Mandela's Harvard University honorary doctorate ceremony. Signed and dated 19-11-98 by Mandela on backside with smeared pen. Pencil on backside as well. Protected in plastic sleeve. Shelved in Case 1 1/2.

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Shelved Dupont Bookstore

Price: $1,200

NOTES

On September 18, 1998, South African President Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) was presented with an honorary doctorate of law from Harvard University. The ceremony in which the degree was conferred marked only the third time that Harvard held a special convocation for a single person—the first being George Washington in 1776 and the second Winston Churchill in 1942.