Helen Keller and Polly Thomson with Dr. & Mrs. Milton Stauffer

Print, Photographic

Accession Number: 2009.24.16.1030

Description: BW Print; left to right; Marjorie Stauffer wearing dark suit, white gloves, brimmed hat with pin on front, a floral corsage pinned to her left collar; Milton Stauffer, smiling at the camera, wearing a dark pinstripe suit and striped tie; Helen Keller, in a dark dress with a V neckline, patterned metallic belt, gold choker, flat triangular hat with dotted netting, and a corsage; and Polly Thomson wearing a dark dress with V neckline, pearls, a gold belt buckle, ad a dark hat with white bird wings attached; Thompson is finger spelling in Keller's hand; stamped on back "Credit National Archives 208-PU-107WW-6".

Medium: Photographic Paper

Date: ca. 1948

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." The John Milton Society helped organized Keller's 1948 trip to the far east, and this photo is probably connected with that effort.

Credit Line: AFB Migel Memorial Library Collection, 2009.24