Helen Keller in Dark Hat

Print, Photographic

Accession Number: 2009.24.16.1026

Description: BW print; studio portrait of head and shoulders of Helen Keller, wearing a dark dress with a V neckline, a braided gold choker with a prominent floral rosette, and a dark triangular hat with dotted netting; stamped on back "Credit National Archives 208-PU-107WW-2".

Medium: Photographic Paper

Date: 1955

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." This portrait comes from a 1955 studio session that included a photograph of Keller with Lester Markel, NY Times Editor.

Credit Line: AFB Migel Memorial Library Collection, 2009.24