Helen Keller in a boat by shore – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Helen Keller in a boat by shore comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Helen Keller in a boat by shore
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Helen Keller appears here in a small boat drifting near the shore, with swans noted on the caption card as part of the scene. The record gives no location, and its details come from an unverified caption card, so the setting is best read as a quiet waterside outing. By around 1913, Keller was already famous as the author of *The Story of My Life* (1903) and as a lecturer and advocate for people who are blind and deaf deaf-blind. Pictures like this one, showing her at ease on the water, helped audiences see her as an ordinary, active person and not only as a symbol of what education could achieve.
| Created / published | c1913. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Birds--Swans; Boats and boating--1913; BI; Blind; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,118 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151580 |
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