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Located at the Frances Perkins National Historic Landmark, The Frances Perkins Center is a nonprofit organization that inspires current and future generations to understand and uphold the government’s role in providing social justice and economic security for all. Our work is guided by Frances Perkins’ effective leadership style and one woman’s power to change the world.
Columbia University Libraries
Frances Perkins Papers, 1895-1965
Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, drafts of speeches, appointment books, subject files, documents, photographs, memorabilia and printed materials. There are notes from her lectures on Sociology at Adelphi College in 1911-1912; papers from 1912-1932, when Perkins served on the Commission for Safety and on the Industrial Commission of New York State; the main body of the material is from the period of her cabinet office, 1933-1945; and some items from her days on the Civil Service Commission, 1946-1953. Also included are personal and family papers.
Reminiscences of Frances Perkins, 1955
Oral History Interview with Frances Perkins, 1955
Columbia University Libraries - Frances Perkins
Mount Holyoke College Archives & Special Collections
Frances Perkins Program Records
The records include newspaper clippings, correspondence, a petition (1980), brochures, press releases, directories, newsletters, invitations, and bulletins. Information on the history and founding of the program is present, as well as reflections and evaluation by both Frances Perkins students and traditional Mount Holyoke students. Detailed descriptions of the background of the Frances Perkins Program participants is also included.
This collection consists of an oral history interview, correspondence, a bibliography, subject files, and biographical information relating to Frances Perkins (1880-1965). Primary sources in the collection include a transcript (on microfiche) of an oral history interview of her conducted by the Oral History Research Office at Columbia University between 1951-1955 and four pieces of correspondence written by or addressed to Perkins.
Walter P. Reuther Library
This collection consists of one letter written by Frances Perkins to Donald H. Kotz in response to his review of her book, The Roosevelt I Knew on February 10, 1953.
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Frances Perkins Article & Portrait
One copy of an article by Frances Perkins titled "Eights Years As Madam Secretary" from Fortune magazine, September 1941. It includes a reproduction of a painted portrait of Perkins by Arthur Syk
Duke University Libraries
Pearl S. Buck Letter to Frances Perkins 1939 May, 24
Pearl S. Buck was an American writer best known for her depictions of rural Chinese life. Her bestselling novel The Good Earth was awarded the Pulizer Prize, and she was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1938). This letter is written by Buck to Frances Perkins, then Franklin D. Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor, the first woman to hold a cabinet post. Buck thanks Perkins for congratulating her on winning the Nobel Prize. She writes that the award, "was given as much to America and China as it was to me."
Ball State University Digital Media Repository
Letter from Clark Wissler to Frances Perkins
Schlesinger Library
Be Ye Steadfast: Frances Perkins to Mid-life by Winnifred D. Wandersee, 1995
Letter from Francis Perkins to Josephine and Pauline Goldmark, 1947 January 8.
Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Online Catalog - Frances Perkins
Connecticut College
Connecticut College - Frances Perkins
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum
Frances Perkins Papers, 1932-1944
The papers consist of materials relating to then-Governor Roosevelt's Conference on Unemployment, April 1932, drafts of speeches, press conferences, radio forums, published articles, a report prepared in December 1943 for President Roosevelt summarizing her first 10 years as Secretary of Labor, and incoming and outgoing correspondence with Labor leaders discussing the National Defense Program, 1940-1943.