Accession Number: 2009.24.16.1034
Description: BW print; studio photograph; Helen Keller, wearing a long dark skirt and a ruffled white blouse with high lace collar, her curly hair pulled onto the back of her head and secred with a hairpiece, holding the hand of Alexander Graham Bell, facing him and apparently fingerspelling into his hand; Bell wears a dark three-piece suit with a gold watchchain; his hair is white and he has a bushy beard and mustache; captioned "#1644 AT&T Co. Photo Center. Helen Keller at age 21, with Alexander Graham Bell. Year 1901".
Medium: Photographic Paper
Date: 1901
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
