helen keller

Hidden Legacies of Helen Keller

Burned manuscript recovered from the wreckage of Arcan Ridge, 1946. Photo AFB Helen Keller Archive As we get ready...

Photo caption: Left to Right, Polly Thomson, Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller, Charlie Chaplin. Photo AFB Helen Keller Archive. When...

I have received some very interesting research questions about Helen Keller during my first year as Archivist in the AFB...

When Helen Keller celebrated her fourteenth birthday at the home of Alexander Graham Bell on June 27, 1894, she received...

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

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

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

In my previous position at a university archive, I worked closely with researchers. My colleagues and I helped these researchers...

In 1933, Miss Elizabeth Aitkin sent Helen Keller a handful of letters from her third and fourth grade classes in...

For a small exhibit this fall I researched two Hall of Fame recipients, Dr. Laurence C. Jones and Martha Morrow...

In My Religion, published in 1927, Helen Keller spelled out her religious beliefs to the world. Helen was an ardent...

When I started working in the AFB (American Foundation for the Blind) Helen Keller Archive at APH in October of...

Museum objects and their stories are codependent. The artifact is the real deal. After all, it was there when history...

May is Teacher Appreciation Month in the U.S., but here in the museum at the American Printing House for the...

What memories of childhood Christmases do you hold dear? The rustle of wrapping paper? The smell of gingerbread? Helen Keller...