Early Years & Family > Youth
Photograph of the two Perkins sisters
Fitton, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1885
Frances Perkins Papers, Box 150A
This photograph was taken when Fanny was five years old, and her sister Ethel was four months old.
Gift of Susan Perkins Coggeshall, 1973
Mount Holyoke College
The Llamarada, A Book Compiled by the Junior Class
[Springfield, Mass.: The F. A. Bassette Company, 1900]
Frances Perkins Papers, Box 163
Frances Perkins is listed with the sophomores, the Class of 1902, as Fanny Cora Perkins, 16 Cottage Street, Worcester, Mass.
Gift of Susanna Perkins Coggeshall, 1970
Jacob A. Riis
How the Other Half Lives, Studies Among the Tenements of New York
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1890
B339.078 R449
Perkins read Jacob Riis’s study of the tenements of New York City during summer vacation while a student at Mount Holyoke. She never forgot the impact of that first reading.
Gift of Allan Nevins