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 ...

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 ...

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.

Helen Keller is a historical figure known worldwide, but many remember her as 7-year-old DeafBlind girl at a water pump. ... Helen Keller biography and timeline. October 25, 2021.

I’ve been legally blind since birth. Ever since I can remember, Helen Keller has been etched in my brain. Like many disabled people, I’ve lived under the shadow of Helen Keller. With the ...

Sullivan helped expand Keller’s vocabulary and knowledge, so much so that when Keller was 22, she published her autobiography, The Story of My Life.She attended Radcliffe College, accompanied by ...