Handsome vintage matte-finish 7 x 9.5 portrait of Lindbergh looking off camera, matted to an overall size of 10.25 x 12.5, signed and inscribed on the mat in fountain pen, "For Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, from Charles A. Lindbergh, 1939.” The photo and mat are affixed to a slightly larger cardstock mount, and the mat has also been signed by the photography studio. In very good to fine condition, with light silvering, a strip of toning to the left edge of the image, and adhesive residue to the photo's borders (concealed by the mat). Accompanied by a fountain pen signature of Roy Chapman Andrews on an off-white 4 x 2.5 card.
Roy Chapman Andrews was an American explorer, adventurer and naturalist (1884-1960) who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History. He is primarily known for leading a series of expeditions through the politically disturbed China of the early 20th century into the Gobi Desert and Mongolia, expeditions which made significant discoveries and brought the first-known fossil dinosaur eggs to the museum.
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