NELSON MANDELA HOLDING UP HIS HONORARY DOCTORATE DEGREE FROM HARVARD UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPH [Signed]

Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998. Color photograph measuring 8" x 10", including white borders. In Very Good minus condition. Photo depicts Nelson Mandela holding up his honorary doctorate degree from Harvard University on the day of his commencement ceremony. Smearing from pen on photo. Signed and dated 19-11-98 by Mandela on backside. Shelved in Case 1 1/2. 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. 1412865. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.