- Accession Number:
- 2009.24.16.1035
- Description:
- BW print; close-up of head and shoulders of Eleanor Roosevelt and Helen Keller; Keller is reading Roosevelt's lips with her left hand and Roosevelt holds Keller's wrist with her right hand; both are smiling; Roosevelt's eyes are closes, Keller's eyes look intently up at Roosevelt; Roosevelt is wearing an evening dress and pearls, and Keller is wearing a fur jacket with a corsage attached; dark curtain visible behind them.
- Medium:
- Photographic Paper
- Date:
- 1-Feb-55
- 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." Originally shot at a February 1955 dinner honoring Helen Keller at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City prior to her trip to the Asia.
- Credit Line:
- AFB Migel Memorial Library Collection, 2009.24
- Subjects:
- Banquets
