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Portrait of Schweitzer Signed While In Africa
SCHWEITZER, Albert (1875-1965). French Protestant Clergyman, philosopher and physician; awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1952). Founder of the Lambarene Hospital in French Equatorial Africa (1913). Attractive printed photograph of Dr. Schweitzer sitting in a native canoe paddled down a river by an African native. Overall size 8”x9.25” with image area measuring 7”x7”. Inscribed, signed and dated on the lower white margin in French to another doctor. Some research tells us this doctor was Schweitzer’s dentist. Schweitzer is somewhat uncommon in signed portraits and this is a stunning example............ $850.00
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