[Rarebooks] FS: Signed Photograph of THE MIRACLE WORKER

[Charles Agvent]

[KELLER,  Helen] SULLIVAN, Anne. SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH. Unusual  10" x
8"  photograph  of Helen Keller's famous teacher, subject of the  play
and  movie THE MIRACLE WORKER, seated on a horse and holding a dog  in
her  arms.  SIGNED by Sullivan in ink: "your friend/Annie S Macy."  At
the  age  of  7,  nearly blind from an illness two  years  before  and
recently  having  suffered  the  loss  of  her  mother,  Sullivan  was
abandoned  by  her father in an orphanage with no  formal  educational
facilities.  Through  her  own will she managed to be  placed  in  the
Perkins  Institute  for  the Blind from which she graduated  as  class
valedictorian   after  regaining  her  eyesight   from  a  series   of
operations.  She  began teaching Helen Keller when the deaf and  blind
child  was  seven and, by all accounts, quite undisciplined.  Sullivan
attended  classes  with  Keller and tutored her  through  the  Perkins
Institute,  The  Cambridge  School  for Young  Ladies,  and  Radcliffe
College,  all  along achieving a measure of success with  her  unusual
student  previously unheard of. After Keller's formal education,  Anne
Sullivan  continued  to  assist  her by  accompanying  Keller  on  her
travels  and  on  various  lecture tours.  Sullivan  married  a  young
Harvard  instructor,  John  Albert  Macy, in  1905.  The  three  lived
together  until 1912 when the Macys separated. Mild feathering to  the
"y"  in  "your" and some loss of ink in "Macy." Slight fading  but  an
interesting image in Near Fine condition.                      $850.00

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