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Statement by the President of the United States of America Outlining Policies of the National Recovery Administration, cover
NRA Bulletin No. 1
Having been appointed to the Industrial Commission by the Governor...
Typescript of Perkins' acceptance letter for an appointment to the New York state Industrial Commission
Memo for Miss Swartz
Memo for Miss Swartz
What constitutes a good job
Frances Perkin's outline of aspects of work environment that constitute a good job, used for a speech made one month after taking office as Secretary of Labor.
What constitutes a good job
Frances Perkins' hand-written notes for a lecture on what constitutes a good job
Memorandum on Modern Culture and its Failure to Absorb the Machine, which is the Modern Characteristic of Modern Economic Life and Effort, pages 1-3
Memo on modern culture
Letter from Bergen Evans to Jay
Evans to Jay
Statement on resignation of Grace Abbott
Statement on resignation of Grace Abbott
Notes on Modern Women
Notes on Modern Women, for talk or publication at Cornell University
Impact of the Employment of Women on Industry and Business, page 17
Impact of employment of women; written by Frances Perkins while she was a visiting lecturer at the New York States School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University
Working Woman and Marriage Talk Draft
Draft of talk on The Working Woman & Marriage
1938th Psalm
President Franklin Roosevelt, his administration, and The New Deal were not without enemies. This anti-psalm states “Mr. Roosevelt is my shepherd / I am in want, / He maketh me to lie down on park benches, / He destroyeth my soul … Surely…
Roosevelt’s Supreme Council: An “Alien-Star” Revolutionary-Power in Control of Washington New Deal Political Policies
In this broadside, Perkins is one of five members of “America’s Invisible Governors,” named with thirty other “alien-minded New Dealer ‘advisors’ … all owing allegiance to the Frankfurter-Brandeis-Baruch-Morgenthau Monopoly … directed by Professor…
Copy of Telegram to Boston Globe from Frances Perkins, Industrial Commissioner New York
Copy of Telegram to Boston Globe
List of Accomplishments for Franklin Delano Roosevelt
With Frances Perkins initials at end
True measure of a man's greatness, first page
Statement on the death of President Franklin Roosevelt, written by his Labor of Secretary and personal friend Frances Perkins. Frances Perkins wrote: “We in the Department of labor have a feeling of keen and personal sadness for we, with our hands…
Draft of statement on strikes, with particular reference to San Francisco
In this statement, Perkins makes clear the position of the government that strikes are “not a blow or a threat to organized government,” that they are instead “an economic tool or method of workers to insure that their employers agree to carry out…
Copy of telegram from President Franklin Roosevelt to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins about Pacific Coast Strike
During the Pacific Coast strike of 1934, that began on May 9, Roosevelt was vacationing on the USS Houston, sailing from Norfolk to Hawaii via the Panama Canal. Here he sends Perkins instructions, writing: “If you think advisable you can issue any…