Helen Keller in Beirut with School Officials and Students

Print, Photographic

Accession Number: 2009.24.16.1009

Description: BW print: Helen Keller, wearing a dark dress with a round gold brooch, pearls, and a flat dark hat with netting and a chevron ribbon, smiles broadly while a young girl places her knuckles on Keller's face, the girl's hand being guided by someone out of sight on the left; Karl Meyer leans in at left but his back is to the camera; other girls are lined up behind the central figures, waiting their turn; a man in round glasses smiles behind Keller; captioned "Beirut".

Medium: Photographic Paper

Date: May-52

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