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Deafness Collection

Background imageDeafness Collection: Helen Keller Holding Pet Poodle in Chair

Helen Keller Holding Pet Poodle in Chair
(Original Caption) Helen Keller (1880-1968), famous author and promotor of education for the blind, was born deaf and blind herself, but with the help of educator Anne Sullivan

Background imageDeafness Collection: Helen Keller Holding Pet Poodle in Chair

Helen Keller Holding Pet Poodle in Chair
(Original Caption) Keeper Of The Flame: In 1887, at the age of seven, Helen Keller looked like this, as she sat quietly with a pet dog she could feel, but couldn't see or hear

Background imageDeafness Collection: Young Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan

Young Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan
Helen Keller, born blind and deaf but who became a well-known and accomplished educator, writer and orator, in an 1892 portrait at the age of twelve with her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan

Background imageDeafness Collection: Helen Keller Gestures Toward Anne Sullivan

Helen Keller Gestures Toward Anne Sullivan
(Original Caption) Born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama, Helen Keller was stricken nineteen months later by a strange disease that left her both blind and deaf

Background imageDeafness Collection: Hellen Keller and Teacher Anne Sullivan

Hellen Keller and Teacher Anne Sullivan
Helen Keller (left), deaf and blind since age six, communicates by touch with her teacher Anne Sullivan

Background imageDeafness Collection: Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan

Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan
(Original Caption) Portrait of Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan, 1897

Background imageDeafness Collection: Interior Of Deaf And Dumb Asylum

Interior Of Deaf And Dumb Asylum
(Original Caption) 1859- New York, NY: The interior of the school-room in the New York Deaf and Dumb Asylum. A teacher teaches mathematics through the use of sign language

Background imageDeafness Collection: Helen Keller

Helen Keller
(Original Caption) Helen Keller (1880-1968), blind and deaf author and lecturer. Head and shoulders photograph, 1950s. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

Background imageDeafness Collection: Helen Keller Wearing Cap and Gown

Helen Keller Wearing Cap and Gown
(Original Caption) Cambridge, Massachusetts: Keeper Of the Flame. In cap and gown, Helen Keller is shown as she graduated Cum Laude from Radcliffe College

Background imageDeafness Collection: Author Helen Keller and Inventor Alexander Graham Bell

Author Helen Keller and Inventor Alexander Graham Bell
Writer Helen Keller and inventor of the telephone Alexander Graham Bell using the manual alphabet of the deaf and blind. Bell did extensive research on methods of teaching the deaf to speak

Background imageDeafness Collection: Humor/Young Man Talks To Deaf Old Farmer

Humor/Young Man Talks To Deaf Old Farmer
(Original Caption) TN: Humorous farm situation. Young man talks to old farmer, obviously hard of hearing. Photograph, ca. 1900. Tennessee

Background imageDeafness Collection: Rosemary Kennedy with 'Visible Speech' Device

Rosemary Kennedy with "Visible Speech" Device
(Original Caption) New Device a Boon to Deaf--New York

Background imageDeafness Collection: Woodcut Depicting M. Jaubert Experimenting with Microphonograph

Woodcut Depicting M. Jaubert Experimenting with Microphonograph
(Original Caption) An experiment by M. Jaubert on deaf mute on Dussaud Microphonographe. Undated woodcut

Background imageDeafness Collection: The Deaf and Dumb Alphabet Print

The Deaf and Dumb Alphabet Print
The deaf and mute alphabet. Engraving. BPA 2 #2336

Background imageDeafness Collection: Painting of Ludwig van Beethoven

Painting of Ludwig van Beethoven
(Original Caption) Ludwig Von Beethoven. Painting by Ferdinand Waldmuller. Undated

Background imageDeafness Collection: Helen Keller Wearing Cap and Gown

Helen Keller Wearing Cap and Gown
Helen Keller, recent graduate, Cum Laude, from Radcliffe College, wears her mortarboard and graduation gown

Background imageDeafness Collection: Helen Keller

Helen Keller
American writer and lecturer Helen Keller (1880 - 1968) takes time to smell a rose. Due to illness, Keller suffered loss of sight and hearing at the age of 19 months. From a photograph by Whitman

Background imageDeafness Collection: Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan

Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan
(Original Caption) 1915- Helen Keller stands with her teacher, Anne Sullivan. BPA2#760

Background imageDeafness Collection: Charlie Chaplin and Others in a Silent Film

Charlie Chaplin and Others in a Silent Film
(Original Caption) Keeper of the Flame (seventh of ten). In California to act in a silent film, Miss Helen Keller (seated center) met movie comedian Charlie Chaplin in 1918

Background imageDeafness Collection: Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Speaking

Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Speaking
(Original Caption) 8/22/1919-New York, New York- Miss Helen Keller, America's most famous blind, deaf and dumb woman, addressing a meeting of striking actors at the Lesington Opera House

Background imageDeafness Collection: Helen Keller with Anne Sullivan

Helen Keller with Anne Sullivan
(Original Caption) Helen Keller (seated) as she looked in the 1920's, pictured here with "Teacher" Anne Sullivan

Background imageDeafness Collection: Competitors Watching Man Throw Javelin

Competitors Watching Man Throw Javelin
(Original Caption) 8/21/1935-London

Background imageDeafness Collection: Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller

Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller
Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy, 70, (left), who for forty-nine years was the companion-teacher of Helen Keller, (right), died October 20th in her home in Forest Hills, Long Island

Background imageDeafness Collection: Helen Keller with Seeing Eye Dog

Helen Keller with Seeing Eye Dog
(Original Caption) 7/2/1939- Picture shows Helen Keller with a seeing eye dog

Background imageDeafness Collection: Helen Keller Feeling a B-17

Helen Keller Feeling a B-17
(Original Caption) 9/4/1943-Seattle, WA- Her burning desire to "see" a flying fortress was realized in Seattle recently when Helen Keller, famed blind authoress

Background imageDeafness Collection: Helen Keller Learning About Broom Making

Helen Keller Learning About Broom Making
(Original Caption) 11/26/1943-Brooklyn, NY- Visting the Industrial Home for the Blind of Brooklyn, Miss Helen Keller, probably the world's most famous blind person

Background imageDeafness Collection: Ludwig Van Beethoven Composing/Lithograp

Ludwig Van Beethoven Composing/Lithograp
(Original Caption) Ludwig Van Beethoven composing the Missa Solemnis. Undated lithograph

Background imageDeafness Collection: Marlee Matlin Holds Oscar, Signing Message

Marlee Matlin Holds Oscar, Signing Message
(Original Caption) 3/30/1987-Los Angeles, CA-Actress Marlee Matlin holds her Oscar, which she recieved for Best Actress, as she signs "I love you" at the Academy Awards

Background imageDeafness Collection: Marlee Matlin Holding Her Oscar

Marlee Matlin Holding Her Oscar
(Original Caption) Los Angeles: Actress Marlee Matlin holds her Oscar which she received for the actress as she sings "I love you."

Background imageDeafness Collection: Santa Claus Signing to Deaf Child

Santa Claus Signing to Deaf Child
(Original Caption) 12/21/1987-St. Louis, MO- 9 year old chris Allen of Broghton, IL learns to sasy I Love You in sign language during a visit to Santa Claus at a local dept store in St Louis

Background imageDeafness Collection: Irving King Jordan

Irving King Jordan
Surrounded by students, Irving King Jordan, raises his hands to celebrate his appointment as the first deaf president of Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C

Background imageDeafness Collection: Ceramic Baking Oven For Painted China

Ceramic Baking Oven For Painted China
(Original Caption) 1890. Ceramic baking oven for finishing hand painted China, at the New York Deaf and Dumb Institute, attended by girls. BPA2# 2189

Background imageDeafness Collection: Deaf-Mutes Hearing With Their Teeth

Deaf-Mutes Hearing With Their Teeth
(Original Caption) A class of deaf-mutes hearing with their teeth by means of the audiphone which consisted of a diaphragm of hard rubber, very thin and elastic, and cut in the form of a square

Background imageDeafness Collection: Helen Keller Sitting at a Desk

Helen Keller Sitting at a Desk
Young Helen Keller sits with a book at her desk. Due to illness, Keller suffered loss of sight and hearing at the age of 19 months. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

Background imageDeafness Collection: Lithograph of Alexander Graham Bell Teaching Deaf Student

Lithograph of Alexander Graham Bell Teaching Deaf Student
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL (1847-1922) TEACHING A DEAF CHILD TO SPEAK. IN 1872 HE OPENED A SCHOOL OF VOCAL PHYSIOLOGY AND MECHANICS IN BOSTON.UNDATED LITHOGRAPH

Background imageDeafness Collection: Helen Keller Arriving from France

Helen Keller Arriving from France
(Original Caption) 7/12/1950-New York- Her sensitive hands receiving messages from a companion, Helen Keller, 70, arrives in New York aboard the Liner America

Background imageDeafness Collection: Deaf Child With Headphones, Learing

Deaf Child With Headphones, Learing
(Original Caption) 5/1/1952-Minneapolis, MN: Three-year-old Dale Fink learns how to say "mouse" with the aid of instructor Ella Rusch

Background imageDeafness Collection: Hellen Keller Pointing to Braille Alphabet Chart

Hellen Keller Pointing to Braille Alphabet Chart
(Original Caption) 6/23/1952-Paris, France- Hellen Keller points to a chart of the braille alphabet during her speech at the Sorbonne, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Louis Braille

Background imageDeafness Collection: Helen Keller and Eleanor Roosevelt

Helen Keller and Eleanor Roosevelt
(Original Caption) 2/1954-New York, NY: This prize-winning photo by United Press staff phtographer William Sauro shows Miss Helen Keller in conversation with her long-time freind, Mrs

Background imageDeafness Collection: Helen Keller Reads Mrs. Roosevelt'S Lips

Helen Keller Reads Mrs. Roosevelt'S Lips
(Original Caption) 2/1/55-New York: Helen Keller, world-renowned deaf and blind educator, reads the lips of Mrs. Franklin D

Background imageDeafness Collection: Women Arranging Helen Keller's Sari

Women Arranging Helen Keller's Sari
World famous Dr. Helen Keller (center) is assisted by her companion, Polly Thompson (left) and Mrs. Poornima Pakvasa in the final arrangement of a sari. Dr

Background imageDeafness Collection: Author Helen Keller

Author Helen Keller
(Original Caption) Helen Keller look like this today, as she prepares to celebrate her 75th birthday, June 27th

Background imageDeafness Collection: Helen Keller Working in the Kitchen

Helen Keller Working in the Kitchen
(Original Caption) Easton, Connecticut: Handsome and brightly alive at 75, Helen Keller helps with the chores at her rambling colonial home at Easton, Conn

Background imageDeafness Collection: Hellen Keller Studying a Womans Face

Hellen Keller Studying a Womans Face
(Original Caption) 6/21/1955-Westport, CT- The sensative hands of Helen Keller, deaf and blind authoress-lecturer, studies the features of this columnist, Phyllis Battelle

Background imageDeafness Collection: Helen Keller and Friend with Birthday Cake

Helen Keller and Friend with Birthday Cake
(Original Caption) 6/26/1955-Easton, CT- Helen Keller, world famous deaf and blind humanitarian

Background imageDeafness Collection: Writer Helen Keller Smelling Roses

Writer Helen Keller Smelling Roses
(Original Caption) Helen Keller in her back yard--smells roses

Background imageDeafness Collection: Helen Keller Holding Donald Hart

Helen Keller Holding Donald Hart
(Original Caption) Reflecting the joy she has always found about her despite her blindness, Helen Keller adds another conquest to her legion of friends - fellow passenger Donald Hart, 2

Background imageDeafness Collection: Helen Keller with a Pigeon on Her Hat

Helen Keller with a Pigeon on Her Hat
(Original Caption) 6/2/1957-Stockholm, Sweden- paying a visit to the Manilla deaf-and-dumb school here, famed American, Helen Keller

Background imageDeafness Collection: Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker

Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker
(Original Caption) Ca. 1960-Scene from the Broadway play, "The Miracle Worker" by William Gibson, starring Anne Bancroft as Anne Sullivan and Patty Duke as Helen Keller

Background imageDeafness Collection: Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker

Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker
Young Helen Keller (Patty Duke) and her teacher Anne Sullivan (Anne Bancroft) go to fill a bucket at the water pump during a performance of the William Gibson Broadway play, The Miracle Worker

Background imageDeafness Collection: Arthur Penn and Patty Duke on Set of The Miracle Worker

Arthur Penn and Patty Duke on Set of The Miracle Worker
(Original Caption) 6/23/1961-New York, NY- Director Arthur Penn helps muddy Patty Duke's pinafore for a scene, during filming of "The Miracle Worker

Background imageDeafness Collection: Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker

Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker
(Original Caption) Actress Anne Bancroft, playing educator Annie Sullivan, pleads with actress Patty Duke, playing Helen Keller, in the 1962 production of "The Miracle Worker"

Background imageDeafness Collection: Helen Keller with Academy Award

Helen Keller with Academy Award
(Original Caption) In 1954, Helen Keller's birthplace, "Ivy Green" in Tuscumbia, Alabama, was made a permanent shrine

Background imageDeafness Collection: Elderly Helen Keller

Elderly Helen Keller
American writer and educator Helen Keller

Background imageDeafness Collection: Sign Language Chart

Sign Language Chart
Illustrated chart from the magazine The Fireside Monthly shows The deaf mute alphabet, with one hand now known as sign language or visible speech, late 19th Century

Background imageDeafness Collection: Sign language hand positions for all letters of the alphabet, front view

Sign language hand positions for all letters of the alphabet, front view

Background imageDeafness Collection: Young, desperate man wearing a shirt and a tie holding his hands over his ears

Young, desperate man wearing a shirt and a tie holding his hands over his ears, has 100-euro notes stuffed into his mouth

Background imageDeafness Collection: Cartoon of man singing as deaf senior man cups hand to ear to hear and girl holds hands over ears to block noise

Cartoon of man singing as deaf senior man cups hand to ear to hear and girl holds hands over ears to block noise

Background imageDeafness Collection: Illustration of childs hand held up to ear

Illustration of childs hand held up to ear

Background imageDeafness Collection: Cross section biomedical illustration of cochlear implants

Cross section biomedical illustration of cochlear implants

Background imageDeafness Collection: Botany Class

Botany Class
5th August 1908: A botany class at the Oral Deaf and Dumb Institute, Fitzroy Square, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)


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