Helen Keller Picture Discovered
By Mar Celo on Mar 5, 2008 in US News | | Share This |
Helen Keller Photo With Doll Discovered
A photograph of Helen Keller with her teacher Anne Sullivan, surfaced nearly 120 years after it was taken on Cape Cod.The picture was shot in July 1888 in Brewster,when Helen who was only 8 years of age,she is seen sitting outside holding Sullivan’s hand and cradling one of her beloved dolls.According to the New England Historic Genealogical Society’s Helen Selsdon, which now has the photo:
“It’s really one of the best images I’ve seen in a long, long time, an archivist at the American Foundation for the Blind, where Keller worked for more than 40 years. “This is just a huge visual addition to the history of Helen and Annie.”
