helen keller

From the Archive: Reparative Description and the Power of Language

Note to the reader: this blog contains outdated historical terms for schools for the blind which are now deemed offensive....

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 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...

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...

In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson awarded Helen Keller the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. The award...

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...