Dwight Eisenhower with Helen Keller and Polly Thomson

Print, Photographic

Accession Number: 2009.24.16.1031

Description: BW print; left to right, President Dwight D. Eisenhower in dark suit, standing in profile; Helen Keller with her left hand on Eisenhower's face, reading his lips; Keller wears a dark suit, fur cape; and a triangular hat; Polly Thomson at right, finger spelling into Keller's hand; Thomson wears a dark suit, a brooch on her collar, and a white scarf tied around her neck; a painting behind the group features church steeples and a boat on a river; stamped "Credit National Archives 79-AR-2196A"; file includes 4x5 copy negative.

Medium: Photographic Paper

Date: 1954

History/Provenance: Part of a collection of prints and reprints supplied by the John Milton Society to CBS News for use in their ca. 1980 series "For Our Times."

Credit Line: AFB Migel Memorial Library Collection, 2009.24