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.

Dedication ceremony for the Helen Keller shrine in Tuscumbia, Alabama
Courtesy of the American Foundation for the Blind
Dedication ceremony for the Helen Keller shrine in Tuscumbia, Alabama