Helen Keller's Watch
National Museum of American History

Helen Keller's Watch

Keller, Helen · ca 1865

gold (watch case material)
National Museum of American History
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of American History

This unusual watch, originally made to tell time in the dark, made the perfect present for Helen Keller. Deaf and blind from the age of nineteen months, Keller (1880-1968) grew up to become an accomplished writer and renowned champion for human rights.

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