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Finding Sadie

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

They say the best advice to young writers is to write about what you know. So rather than come up...

Time capsules have long been an intriguing way for people to communicate through the ages, be they historians or grade...

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

The American Foundation for the Blind Archive, housed at APH since 2020, never fails to provide surprises. This September 2021...

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

In my work cataloging the materials in the AFB Helen Keller Archive, I’ve come across hundreds of folders with the...

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

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...

“Helen,” she said superfluously, “does like beer.” That about sums up Helen Keller… That’s not what people expected to read...

Learn more about the Western Union Telegram to Helen Keller above on AFB Helen Keller Archive Online. Documents in...