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Frances Perkins
The Holy Trinity
Autograph manuscript, pencil, May 1910
Frances Perkins Papers, Box 121
This devout poem, “A man, a woman & a child,” shows the depth of Perkins’s feelings on family and motherhood that would remain unchanged by adversity, including two miscarriages prior to Susanna’s birth in 1916.
Gift of Susanna Perkins Coggeshall, 1988
Photograph of Frances Perkins, Paul Wilson, and Susanna Perkins Wilson
Maine?, ca. 1923
Frances Perkins Papers, Box 150A
The Perkins/Wilson family is shown here with Susanna's pony, Elsie.
Gift of Susanna Perkins Coggeshall, 1973