Helen Keller photo discovered
Last week, the New England Historic Genealogical Society released this wonderful photograph of a young Helen Keller vacationing in Massachusetts in July, 1888. She is sitting outside on a chair and holding a doll. Her teacher, Anne Sullivan is next to her. Interestingly, "doll" was Helen's first signed word, in March of 1887. You can read the full story here - it covers some details about Helen's life and also the story behind the photograph.
4 comments:
This blew me away.
Interesting story!
Seen my blog yet? Disability related too!
What a lovely photo!
Your link to the press release didn't work for me, but this one did: http://www.newenglandancestors.org/pdfs/hkeller_release_feb08v2.pdf
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