Frances Perkins: The Woman Behind the New Deal

President Roosevelt > The New Administration

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Photograph of Frances Perkins as State Industrial Commissioner

New York, February 1933

Frances Perkins Papers, Box 100

Sent to Perkins in an envelope postmarked 28 February 1933, this photograph would have been taken just as her appointment as Secretary for Labor was announced.

Gift of Frances Perkins

President of the United States

[Invitation to the] Inauguration of the President … March fourth, Nineteen hundred thirty-three

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1933

Frances Perkins Papers, Box 135

Gift of Susanna Perkins Coggeshall, 1979

President of the United States

Inauguration Ceremonies Program

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1933

Frances Perkins Papers, Box 135

Gift of Susanna Perkins Coggeshall, 1979

Testimonial Dinner to Hon. Frances Perkins … Given by Labor Organizations, Women’s Clubs, Civic and Social Groups of New York City

Typescript, New York, Sills Reporting Service, 24 March 1933

Frances Perkins Papers, Box 46

Among the speakers at the gala dinner held at the Hotel Commodore in New York to honor the new Secretary of Labor were Rose Schneiderman, James Farley, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the honoree herself.

Gift of Frances Perkins

 

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