1980 15c Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan
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U.S. #1824
1980 15¢ Helen Keller
1980 15¢ Helen Keller
Issue Date: June 27,1980
City: Tuscumbia, Alabama
Quantity: 153,975,000
City: Tuscumbia, Alabama
Quantity: 153,975,000
Printed By: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Printing Method: Lithographed and engraved
Perforations: 11
Color: Multicolored
U.S. #1824 features Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan. At 19 months, Helen Keller suffered a severe illness that caused the loss of her sight and hearing. Helen's education and training, by Anne Sullivan, represent one of the most extraordinary accomplishments ever made in the education of the handicapped.
Birth Of Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama.
Keller was born with the ability to see and hear but lost both senses when she was 19 months old to scarlet fever or meningitis. Over time she developed her own system of about 60 home signs. She could also identify people walking to a room by the vibrations in their footsteps.
When Keller was six, her mother read about the successful teaching of a deaf and blind woman in Charles Dickens’ American Notes. Her mother then consulted a doctor who led her to Alexander Graham Bell, who was working with deaf children at the time. Bell referred them to the Perkins Institute for the Blind, where they were introduced to 20-year-old Anne Sullivan. Sullivan was also visually impaired and agreed to become Keller’s teacher, marking the start of a 49-year-long friendship.
Sullivan officially began teaching Keller in March 1887. She taught her to communicate by spelling out words in her hand. Keller initially had trouble with the lessons, but Sullivan had a major breakthrough when she ran water on one of Keller’s hands while making the sign for it on the other. Keller soon wanted to know the names of everything else in her world.
With Sullivan’s teaching, Keller was soon able to attend a school for the deaf before being admitted to Radcliffe College. When she was 24, Keller graduated, making her the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. She soon learned to speak so she could deliver lectures, and found she could understand people by “reading” their lips with her hands.
Click here to read Keller’s autobiography.
U.S. #1824
1980 15¢ Helen Keller
1980 15¢ Helen Keller
Issue Date: June 27,1980
City: Tuscumbia, Alabama
Quantity: 153,975,000
City: Tuscumbia, Alabama
Quantity: 153,975,000
Printed By: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Printing Method: Lithographed and engraved
Perforations: 11
Color: Multicolored
U.S. #1824 features Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan. At 19 months, Helen Keller suffered a severe illness that caused the loss of her sight and hearing. Helen's education and training, by Anne Sullivan, represent one of the most extraordinary accomplishments ever made in the education of the handicapped.
Birth Of Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama.
Keller was born with the ability to see and hear but lost both senses when she was 19 months old to scarlet fever or meningitis. Over time she developed her own system of about 60 home signs. She could also identify people walking to a room by the vibrations in their footsteps.
When Keller was six, her mother read about the successful teaching of a deaf and blind woman in Charles Dickens’ American Notes. Her mother then consulted a doctor who led her to Alexander Graham Bell, who was working with deaf children at the time. Bell referred them to the Perkins Institute for the Blind, where they were introduced to 20-year-old Anne Sullivan. Sullivan was also visually impaired and agreed to become Keller’s teacher, marking the start of a 49-year-long friendship.
Sullivan officially began teaching Keller in March 1887. She taught her to communicate by spelling out words in her hand. Keller initially had trouble with the lessons, but Sullivan had a major breakthrough when she ran water on one of Keller’s hands while making the sign for it on the other. Keller soon wanted to know the names of everything else in her world.
With Sullivan’s teaching, Keller was soon able to attend a school for the deaf before being admitted to Radcliffe College. When she was 24, Keller graduated, making her the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. She soon learned to speak so she could deliver lectures, and found she could understand people by “reading” their lips with her hands.
Click here to read Keller’s autobiography.