Exhibition: Frances Perkins: The Woman Behind the New Deal
Item appears in the following exhibition pageFrances Perkins: The Woman Behind the New Deal: Immigration & Impeachment: Immigration Item Information  Dublin CoreTitleStatement by Mount Holyoke President Mary Wooley on Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins' ancestry and marriage
SubjectPerkins, Frances, 1880-1965
DescriptionMount Holyoke President Mary Wooley presented this statement, probably to the House Judiciary Committee, writing: “As a believer in fair play I respectfully request that your committee investigate … who is responsible for the widespread distribution of these false and evidently maliciously intended statements, which for some unknown reason have been directed at an able, honorable and patriotic public official who has made an exceptional record as an administrator and is generally recognized as the most capable Secretary of Labor in the history of that department.”
CreatorWoolley, Mary Emma, 1863-1947
DateApril 1936
Languageeng
Additional Item MetadataProvenanceGift of Susanna Perkins Coggeshall, 1973
MODSKey Date1936-04
Type of Datein
Place of OriginSouth Hadley, Massachusetts
Form/Genremanuscripts
Repository Namennc-rb
Shelf LocationBox 107
NotesOriginal filename: 090074222.tif, 090074223.tif
Language of Catalogingeng
Digital Originrd
CollectionFrances Perkins Papers
CitationWoolley, Mary Emma, 1863-1947, “Statement by Mount Holyoke President Mary Wooley on Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins' ancestry and marriage,” Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions, accessed April 20, 2024, https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/perkins/item/445. |