Mother during the big depression poses with her 11 children (2 new borns on arms) while grandma smiles and tries to get the little ones to look at the camera, 1930s.
Laura Bridgman (1829-1889) lost her sight, hearing, smell and taste when she was struck with scarlet fever at 2 years old, yet is considered the first Deaf-blind to reach high education, decades before Hellen Keler.