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For nearly five decades, Anne Sullivan was Helen Keller's teacher, friend, and constant companion. This collection contains portraits of Sullivan, images of her with Helen Keller and other images and documents that pertain to her life.
Jul 23, 2024 · In memory of Anne Sullivan, Teacher extraordinaire—Who with the word Water, opened to the girl Helen Keller the world of sight and sound through touch. Beloved companion through Radcliffe College, 1900- 1904. | Photograph by Lindsay Chase-Lansdale '74. Helen Keller ignited my imagination.
Nov 16, 2021 · Explore the journey of Anne Sullivan in this biography, from overcoming childhood blindness and adversity to becoming Helen Keller's teacher.
Feb 5, 2024 · Anne Sullivan, also known as Johanna ‘Anne’ Mansfield Sullivan Macy, was a renowned Irish-American teacher and mentor to Helen Keller. Despite facing numerous hardships in her childhood, including the loss of her mother and abandonment by her father, Sullivan persevered and excelled academically.
- Myth: She Wasn’T Able to Do Anything Until She Met Anne Sullivan
- Myth: She Was Apolitical
- Myth: She Had No Romantic Life
It’s commonly thought that Keller “had no way of communicating with her family until her teacher arrived around her seventh birthday,” writes Hiskey. However, Keller–who had no cognitive impairments–was able to use about 60 different signs to make herself understood. She mostly used those to communicate with her friend Martha Washington, who was th...
In fact, Keller had strong personal politics that even landed heron a 1949 list of Communist Party members compiled by the FBI. For the record, though Keller was a true-blue socialist, she was not a member of the Communist Party. When she was sixteen, in 1896, she was catapulted to national fame, writes Keith Rosenthal for the International Sociali...
Like many other people, Keller wanted a life partner as well as romance. And once, it seemed like that desire might be fulfilled. She was in her thirties, world-famous and still living with her supporter and companion Anne Sullivan, who by this time had married and was estranged from her husband. Sullivan became very sick and had to take some time ...
Photographs of Helen Keller, her aid Polly Thomson, Nella Braddy Henney, Herbert Haas, and a few others. Prints made in 1990 from negatives donated to Perkins as part of the Nella Braddy Henney Collection. Nella Braddy Henney first met Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller, and Polly Thomson in 1924, when she came to the Sullivan-Keller-Thomson household ...
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Apr 14, 2016 · 1. First, Obedience. When she first arrived at the Keller home in Tuscumbia, Alabama, in March 1887, Sullivan discovered her task was going to be even more difficult than expected. Her pupil was not only blind and deaf; she was unruly and spoiled, prone to violent temper tantrums.
