NELSON MANDELA AND JESSYE NORMAN PHOTOGRAPH [Signed by Mandela]

Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1998. Color photograph measuring 8" x 10". In Very Good minus condition. Photo depicts Nelson Mandela laughing alongside opera singer and recitalist Jessye Norman who performed "Amazing Grace" at Mandela's Harvard University honorary doctorate ceremony. Light pen smearing on photo. Signed and dated 19-11-98 by Mandela on backside. Shelved in Case 1 1/2.

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Shelved Dupont Bookstore

Price: $900

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.