Keller in Tuscumbia, 1954

Helen Keller and her secretary, Polly Thomson, are greeted by a city official in Tuscumbia, Colbert County, in this photo from June 27, 1954. The women had traveled to Tuscumbia for the celebration of the city's Helen Keller Shrine commemorating it as her birthplace.

1954 photograph of Helen Keller and her secretary, Polly Thomson, greeted by a city official.
Courtesy of the American Foundation for the Blind
1954 photograph of Helen Keller and her secretary, Polly Thomson, greeted by a city official.