Superb matte-finish 6.25 x 9.25 portrait of Bell taken circa 1910 by renowned photography studio Harris & Ewing, affixed to a 6.5 x 9.5 mount, neatly signed on the mount in black ink, “Alexander Graham Bell.” Blindstamped in the lower right by Harris & Ewing. Attractively suede-matted and framed with a nameplate to an overall size of 14 x 17.5. In fine condition, with spots of silvering to his jacket and heavier silvering to edges. At this time in his life, Bell was traveling the globe on a 12-month world tour, making stops in a diverse array of countries that included Australia, China, France, India, Italy, England, and Fiji, before arriving back in Washington, DC, in May 1911. What he was most surprised by during the trip was the proliferation of the telephone, which he had invented back in 1876—perfect strangers would thank him for his revolutionary device and he was welcomed as an important guest everywhere he went, with a Sydney newspaper naming him one of the ‘two most interesting visitors Australia has ever had from the United States,’ (Mark Twain being the other). Signed photos of the communications innovator are extremely rare.
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