Skip to main content Skip to main menu

Archive

Embarking on an Educational Journey: How Anne Sullivan Taught Helen Keller

From childhood and beyond, Helen’s teacher, Anne Sullivan, aided in her pupil’s pursuit to understand the world. Anne utilized protactile...

Read more

Unveiling a Legacy: The Helen Keller Time Capsule

Around the corner from the heart of  braille production and product storage, sits a room tucked against the back wall...

Read more

An Interview with Dr. Elyse Connors on Her Fulbright Trip to Lagos & the Delivery of APH Press Books

International efforts in blindness often involve collaboration to address critical gaps in services and training. We had the pleasure of...

Read more

Running a Marathon: Moving a Museum Collection

With the Dot Experience at APH officially breaking ground, we have been incredibly busy behind the scenes preparing for construction...

Read more

Finding Sadie

“The blind veterans here in the Helen Keller class are able, thru talking books, to obliterate the tedious hospital hours...

Read more

The Kentucky School for the Blind Alumni Association Archive

In 2020, the Kentucky School for the Blind [KSB] Alumni Association signed an agreement that gave the care of the...

Read more

Photographs as Time Capsules of the Past

The holiday season is decidedly upon us, and with workplace parties on the calendar I was curious what holiday-related items...

Read more

Technological Relevance in an Ever-changing World

Everything old is new again. Or so the adage goes. But there is an underlying truth to it, even if...

Read more

Online Archives in a Digitized World

Have you ever done research in an archive? Maybe for a school project, or just researching a topic of personal...

Read more

Unsolved Mysteries in Historical Research

You know those history research shows that trace your family’s history? I love shows like that, and they’re a great...

Read more

An Amazing Discovery: Laura Bridgman

While working my way through a series in the American Foundation for the Blind collection called “Education, Rehab, and Welfare,”...

Read more

Series 3: Unprocessed

When the AFB Helen Keller Archive arrived at APH, we found a few boxes labeled “Series 3: Unprocessed.” These unprocessed...

Read more

Preserving a Panorama: A Conservation Journey

Have you ever stored something rolled up? Maybe that poster you bought at a concert years ago that you tucked...

Read more

The History of Puzzle Maps

When I first started working in the museum at APH in 2005, I’d often commandeer my young son and nephews...

Read more

Helen Keller and the Stoney Nakoda Nation

In September of 2021, the AFB Helen Keller Archive received a handful of Helen Keller artifacts that had been discovered...

Read more