BOSTON — Researchers have uncovered a rare photograph of a young Helen Keller with her teacher Anne Sullivan, nearly 120 years after it was taken on Cape Cod, Mass., and tucked inside a family ...

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.

This 1888 photo released by the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston shows Helen Keller when she was 8 years old, left, holding hands with her teacher, Anne Sullivan, during a ...

Although Keller had many dolls throughout her childhood, this is believed to be the first known photograph of Helen Keller with one of her dolls. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Thaxter P. Spencer ...

BOSTON -- Researchers have uncovered a rare photograph of a young Helen Keller with her teacher, Anne Sullivan, nearly 120 years after it was taken on Cape Cod and tucked inside a family album.

A recently uncovered 1888 photo of Helen Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan, is notable because it shows the young Keller holding a doll. "Doll" was the first word the "Miracle Worker" Sullivan ...

Now a newly discovered photo from 1888 shows Helen, at age eight, on a family vacation in Cape Cod. She's sitting with Sullivan, holding Sullivan's hand and a doll.

Researchershave uncovered a rare photograph of a young Helen Kellerwith her teacher Anne Sullivan, nearly 120 years after itwas taken on Cape Cod andtucked inside a family album. Rare Helen Keller ...

Photographs of Helen Keller, the world-renowned advocate for the deaf and the blind who suffered from both handicaps herself, are not hard to come by. After all, she only died in 1968, at the age ...

A photo of an 8-year-old Helen Keller and her mentor finds a home in Brewster, Mass.

The photo shows an 8-year-old Keller and Sullivan on vacation at the Freeman-Hopkins House at 1491 Main St. in Brewster in 1888, said Sally Gunning, vice president of the Brewster Historical Society.