Helen Keller in 1888 Photo at Cape Cod

Anne Sullivan looks just as mean as every actress who has ever played her in The Miracle Worker. Well, maybe stern would be a better word. A passive and blank looking Helen Keller sits in a wicker chair with a doll in her lap. It seems that she may be talking to her teacher Anne with her hand. But since all I know about this king of sign language is what I have seen in the movies, it is only a guess. But if I were the photographer taking a portrait of these two, I’d tell them to talk to…

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