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A "Who’s Who" of the 19th and 20th Centuries
From Alexander Graham Bell to Laurence Olivier - the Helen Keller Archival Collection includes materials from luminaries spanning two centuries. Correspondence from nine U.S. presidents, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy, as well as leading figures such as Maria Montessori, Pearl S. Buck, Albert Einstein, and Coretta Scott King - all are in the collection. Beyond these famous figures, the collection also contains voluminous correspondence from men, women, and children, sighted and not, who corresponded with Keller from around the globe and whose stories have never been told.
The Helen Keller Digitization Project is about an iconic American figure, but it is also about much more than that; it is about the world in which Keller participated and the people and broader social developments she influenced and continues to influence today. It is a unique collection that deserves to be preserved in its entirety for future generations.
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Image: Photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt with Helen Keller at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, 1948. Helen places the fingers of her left hand on Eleanor's lips to "read" what she is saying.
