RR Auction Quality Autograph Auction 359

Vintage matte-finish 9.25 x 7 1892 Schweitzer family portrait outside their Günsbach home by Zahneissen, including the then seventeen year old ...

ALS in French, one onionskin page, 8.25 x 11.75, August 18, 1959. Letter to Charles R. Joy, in Gray, Maine. Headed at the top by Schweitzer, “On the b

Vintage 6 x 4 photo of Schweitzer looking across the Oawe River, signed in the lower border in fountain pen. Also signed on the reverse by Schweitzer’

FDC with a cachet honoring the 100th anniversary of the Smithsonian Institute, signed on the front in ink and felt tip by Jonas Salk, Linus Pauling, M

Nobel Prize–winning chemist (1912–1999) who was instrumental in the discovery of several elements. Element 106, Seaborgium, was named in his honor in

Former Democratic congressman (1815–1880) who served as Confederate Secretary of War. Rare ALS, three pages on two adjoining 8 x 10 sheets of lightly-

Nature writer who founded the modern school of animal fiction and helped found the Boy Scouts of America. AQS on an off-white 6 x 4 album page, Seton

American physicist (1910–1989) and, more controversially, eugenicist, who won the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for his development of the transistor. G

Shackleton (1874–1922), a junior officer in Scott’s National Antarctic Expedition of 1901–02, nearly reached the South Pole during an expedition of hi

American-born author, explorer, and special correspondent for the New York Herald (1841–1904). He entered the annals of popular quotation with his fam