A rare photograph, shot in July 1888, shows an 8-year-old Helen Keller sitting outside in light-colored dress, holding teacher Anne Sullivan's hand and cradling one of her beloved dolls.

This 1888 photo released by the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston shows Helen Keller when she was 8 years old, left, holding hands with her teacher, Anne Sullivan, during a ...

Although Keller had many dolls throughout her childhood, this is believed to be the first known photograph of Helen Keller with one of her dolls. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Thaxter P. Spencer ...

Experts on Keller’s life think it could be the earliest photo of the two together and the only one showing the blind and deaf child with a doll -- the first word Sullivan spelled for Keller ...

This 1888 photo released by the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston shows Helen Keller when she was 8 years old, left, holding hands with her teacher, Anne Sullivan, during a ...

And then she flew through life, sometimes literally. Now a newly discovered photo from 1888 shows Helen, at age eight, on a family vacation in Cape Cod. She's sitting with Sullivan, holding ...

Researchers have uncovered a rare photograph of a young Helen Keller with her teacher Anne Sullivan, nearly 120 years after it was taken on Cape Cod. The photograph, shot in July 1888 in Brewster, ...

Keller died in 1968. Caption from LIFE. At age 6, Helen sits at her home in Tuscumbia, ALA. Deaf, blind and still unable to talk. Walter Sanders—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Taken ...

The photo shows an 8-year-old Keller and Sullivan on vacation at the Freeman-Hopkins House at 1491 Main St. in Brewster in 1888, said Sally Gunning, vice president of the Brewster Historical Society.

Helen Keller Day 2025: Early Life, Birth, Achievements, Books, Husband, Death and More Helen Keller Day: Helen Keller Day is observed every year on June 27 to remember the life and work of Helen ...

Helen Keller's Early Life . Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, in 1880. She developed a brain fever at just 19 months old — later speculated to be either meningitis or scarlet fever ...