IN HER LIBRARY. Mist Keller selects a book from her well-stocked shelves. All books are in Braille.
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HELEN KELLER
Despite her double handicap of blindness and stone
deafness, and her age, 72, Helen Keller, author,
educator and one of the great personages of our time,
lives a remarkably active, normal life. At her home near
Westport, Conn., she spends a full, busy day, much of
it in her library working on her lectures or answering
her mail from oil parts of the world. The letters are
concerned mainly with work for the blind end the deaf.
In typing, she's equally adept in using either the
Braille or standard machine. She does housework to a
certain extent, gets about alone, if necessary, but
generally with her companion and secretary, Miss Polly
Thomson, a member of her "family" since 1914.
Miss Keller likes to walk, and in free moments stroll*
the grounds around the house. In the summer time
she is out of doors by 5:30 weeding her garden
and clipping grass around trees or down the driveway.
She visits New York City once a month, combining her
shopping with a visit to the offices of the American
Foundation for the Blind, of which she is counsellor
?nd a trustee. Right now, she is busily preparing for a
trip to South America. There she will be a guest of
government officiols and continue her work for the
blind- deaf.
Miss Keller, at her home and in the city, is
pictured here.
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AUTHOR. In her study, Mist
Keller uses her Braille, type
writer while writing a new book.
She handles everything in this
room herself. Her dog, Et Tu,
sits beside her as she work
Tu,
ks.
STAFF CONFERENCE. Mit< Keller,
with Mitt Thornton at right, attondt
a conference in the Helen Keller room
at the American Foundation (or tho
Blind in Now York. Mitt Keller it a
truttee and countellor of the foundation.
CAME. Mitf Kalfcr ploys check art with a visitor, M. Robert Bornott,
who U alto blind. Sho liUt the go mo, play* H with epeed.
IN HER GARDEN. During on afternoon ??roll. Mitt Kollor fills on* of
hot Many bird ianctu*riot wilh food. Mitt Thornton watchot.
SHOPPING TOUR. Miss Kollor on<l Miss Thornton c ross Monhotton's
Fifth Avonuo of 57th Stroot oft or moking o round of shops.
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