Primary Sources: People - American Women: Keller, Helen

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"Links to Online Resources from the Perkins Archives related to Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan."

The Helen Keller Archival Collection at the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) is the world’s largest repository of letters, speeches, press clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, architectural drawings, artifacts and audio-video materials relating to Helen Keller.

"The Oscar-winning documentary Helen Keller in Her Story (1955) was produced by Smith alumna Nancy Hamilton (Smith Class of 1930). The original film footage is housed with her papers in the Sophia Smith Collection and includes the original raw footage, outtakes, trims, and soundtrack, as well as documentary and newsreel footage from other sources. The footage clips shown here were selected for reformatting based on research value and uniqueness of the content--many of these scenes are outtakes or longer clips that did not appear in the final production."