Helen Keller Reading a Book

Print, Photographic

Accession Number: 2009.24.16.1029

Description: BW print; Helen Keller, wearing a striped dress underneath a short wool jacket, standing in a corner next to shelves loaded with braille books; she holds a braille book open, supporting it with her right hand while her left touches the page; stamped on back "Credit National Archives 306-PS-50-13221".

Medium: Photographic Paper

Date: ca. 1950

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