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Bell was, above all, a teacher of the deaf, and it was this very subject and the
professional expertise he developed on the nature of sound that enabled him to
invent the telephone. His friendship with the deaf and blind Helen Keller, a
frequent guest with the Bell family, spilled over into science. Bell described
what Annie Sullivan had done in teaching the young Helen to communicate by
means of finger spelling as "not a miracle but a brilliantly successful
experiment." Here Bell is "talking" to Helen Keller surrounded by family and
friends. Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection, Prints and Photographs Division,
Library of Congress.
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Miss Helen Keller reading Mrs. Coolidge's lips
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Helen Keller, 1880-1968 reading Braille
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Plaque showing Helen Keller, half lgth., right profile, with inscription "To be blind is
to see the bright side of life
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"Autumn," poem by Helen Keller, 27 October 1893. Written for Graham Bell.
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Alexander Graham Bell and Helen Keller, 29 August 1901
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Bell was, above all, a teacher of the deaf, and it was this very subject and the professional expertise he
developed on the nature of sound that enabled him to invent the telephone. His friendship with the deaf and
blind Helen Keller, a frequent guest with the Bell family, spilled over into science. Bell described what Annie
Sullivan had done in teaching the young Helen to communicate by means of finger spelling as "not a miracle
but a brilliantly successful experiment." Here Bell is "talking" to Helen Keller surrounded by family and
friends. Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
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Map of Alabama.
Alabama. Railroad Commissioners.
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Chicago, 1888.
SUMMARY
Shows drainage, township and county boundaries, cities and towns, and the railroad network in colored lines.
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Scale ca. 1:1,150,000.
"Prepared expressly for the Tenth (10th) Annual report of the Railroad Commissioners of Alabama."
Reference: LC Railroad maps, 179
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Miss Helen Keller reading Mrs. Coolidge's lips
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Helen Keller, 1880-1968
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3/4 lgth., seated, right profile; reading braille.
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TITLE: [Plaque showing Helen Keller, half lgth., right profile, with inscription "To be blind is to see the
bright side of life"]
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Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the
Manuscript Division's First 100 Years
"Autumn," poem by Helen Keller, 27 October 1893.
(Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers)
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This poem was written by thirteen-year-old Helen Keller (1880-1968) who, only six years before, was "a wild
little creature" who lived in the chilling emptiness and confusion of having been deaf and blind since she was
nineteen months old. In early 1887, Keller's father brought her to the attention of Alexander Graham Bell
(1847-1922), the inventor of the telephone and a teacher and advocate of the deaf. Bell recommended Keller to
the Perkins Institute, stating that she was certainly capable of being taught. There she began a lifelong
association with teacher Annie Sullivan (1866-1936), who, in less than three weeks, used finger spelling to
communicate with Keller by manually pressing the alphabet onto the child's palm. This enabled Keller to make
her famous breakthrough in understanding--realizing the simple but profound notion that people and things had
names. Keller called this awakening her "soul's birthday," and attributed its occurrence to Bell, whom she later
described as "the door through which I should pass from darkness into light."
Significantly, it was also Bell who encouraged Keller to attend a regular school, thus permitting her eventually
to graduate cum laude from Radcliffe College in 1904. All her life she remained a grateful, close friend of Bell,
visiting his home and family, and in this case, dedicating this intensely descriptive poem to her kind and loving
mentor. Bell also had taken early note of Keller's "marvelous knowledge of language" and believed she had a
future in literature. Many called Keller's achievements a miracle, but Bell, ever the scientist, insisted that
Sullivan's success with the child was not supernatural but rather a brilliantly successful experiment.
Leonard C. Bruno, Manuscript Division
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