Frances Perkins wrote on the verso of the photograph above left: “The first view of Henry Kaiser’s latest Mud & hope.” His Richmond shipyard became famous for producing cargo ships, known as Liberty ships, on the average of one every 45 days, and by…
The caption for this photograph is as follows: “Conflicting reports of housing and labor conditions in Oklahoma and Missouri mining areas brought Secretary of labor Frances Perkins to the district on a tour of inspection. She is shown [here] as she…
Photograph and caption of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act.
Caption gives date of "3-14-35" for signing of the Act, although President Roosevelt signed the Act on 9-15-35
In this photograph of Fala, kept by Perkins, President Roosevelt’s Scotty “bends an attentive ear to a portable radio on a railroad station platform at a Pacific Coast naval base as he listens to his master accepting a fourth term nomination.”…
Perkins gathered these and other photographs of Al Smith for her unpublished biography. Some of them were used by Matthew and Hannah Josephson in their 1969 biography of Smith.
Addresses of Alfred Smith delivered at the meetings of the Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick, 1922-1944. This volume also contains transcripts of the memorial addresses delivered after Smith's death.