Portrait of Helen Keller and her teacher/companion Anne Sullivan facing each other, 1890s. Glass negative.
[image description: Two women sit on a tete-a-tete chair facing one another. The woman on the left is Helen Keller, dressed in a white-colored long dress with a shawl wrapped around her torso. The woman on the right is Helen's teacher/companion Anne Sullivan, she is dressed in a dark dress with puffed sleeves and a lightly gathered front and a tab type collar. Annes elbow is propped upon the back of her portion of the chair her hand is draped down just below her waist. Both women wear their hair in buns. The glass negative is black and white with a narrow white area on the bottom right half of the image it is dated from the 1890s. End ID]










