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Lot 1023
KELLER, HELEN Twice signed library card for the Public Library of Cincinnati.
Likely the Cincinnati Library Society for the Blind: after 1901. A partly printed library card accomplished in manuscript in three hands, the first heading the card and assigning Keller's card number, the second is Keller herself who has signed "Helen Keller" in pencil to both the recto and verso, and the third provides Keller's address in Alabama. Visual area 3 x 5 inches (7 x 13 cm); in an elaborate frame with portrait and plaque, the card housed in a hinged window display. An original cancel punch not affecting signature, else visually fine, unexamined out of the large frame.
Sisters Georgia Duckworth Trader, who lost her eyesight at age 11, and Florence Bishop Trader taught braille classes at the Cincinnati Public Library and established the Cincinnati Library Society for the Blind in 1901. A possible fourth hand has added the word "Blind" next to Keller's signature on the recto.
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