Al Smith > With Governor Smith
Al Smith
Photograph with NBC microphone
New York, no date
Frances Perkins Papers, Box 137
Perkins gathered these and other photographs of Al Smith for her unpublished biography. Some of them were used by Matthew and Hannah Josephson in their 1969 biography of Smith.
Gift of Susanna Perkins Coggeshall, 1971
Frances Perkins
[On Her Appointment to the Industrial Commission]
Typescript, carbon, 1919?
Frances Perkins Papers, Box 66
In this text, most probably written for a speech following her appointment by Governor Smith, Perkins shows her understanding of the job at hand: “As I understand the aim of the Commission, it is to make New York the best industrial State in the country, as well as the greatest industrial State in the country, and to the fulfillment of this aim I am willing to devote all my time and all my skill.”
Gift of Frances Perkins
Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick
Addresses of Alfred E. Smith, Delivered at the Meetings …1922-1944
New York: The Society, 1945
Frances Perkins Papers, Box 161
This volume contains not only addresses delivered by Al Smith, but also transcripts of the memorial addresses delivered after his death on October 4, 1944.
Gift of Susanna Perkins Coggeshall, 1970