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Frances Perkins: Other Institutions with Frances Perkins Materials

This guide will detail the Kheel Center's collections relating to Frances Perkins.

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Other Institutions with Frances Perkins Materials

Frances Perkins Center

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.

Frances Perkins Collection

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

Frances Perkins Papers

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

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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.