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Columbia University
Registration Book for Frances Perkins
New York, 1907-1911
Frances Perkins Papers Box 140
As a graduate student enrolled in the Masters Program in Political Science, Perkins was required to have her instructors, including E. R. Seligman and J. B. Clark, sign this registration book.
Gift of Susanna Perkins Coggeshall, 1973
Frances Perkins
[Notes for] Fiscal History
Autograph manuscript, pencil, October 1909
Professor Seligman’s Economics 107 survey of the “Fiscal and Industrial History of the United States” began with the colonial period and ended with the Tariff of 1909 and “Present outlook and prospects.” On March 1, 1933, three days before she took office as Secretary of Labor, Seligman sent Perkins his congratulations.
Gift of Susanna Perkins Coggeshall, 1973
Edwin R. Seligman
Outline of Lectures on the Fiscal and Industrial History of the United States by Professor Edwin R. A. Seligman
Printed pamphlet, with manuscript notes, 1909
Frances Perkins Papers, Box 121
Gift of Susanna Perkins Coggeshall, 1973
Frances Perkins
A Study of Malnutrition in 107 children from Public School 51… Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Political Science, Columbia University
Typescript, carbon, corrected, New York, April 15, 1910
Frances Perkins Papers, Box 121
In the conclusion to her Master’s thesis, Perkins wrote: “The questions involved, in preventing malnutrition, are after all the two which are fundamental to all social reform, the question of increasing wages and the question of making education more widespread. Temporary relief is necessary … but it is after all an expedient to head off malnutrition until society adjusts itself and provides adequate incomes and adequate education to all its workers. The heading off must be done, however, and must be done at once.” Severely cut and with none of the accompanying tables, her thesis was published in The Survey, 1 October 1910, her first published work.
Gift of Susanna Perkins Coggeshall, 1973