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This eight-page typescript appears to be the copy that Perkins used in her hearing before the House Judiciary Committee. In conclusion, she stated: “It is because I share the confidence of other Americans in the capacity of our institutions to…

An anonymous letter to Perkins concerning antisemitism and the whispering campaign against her, sent “from one who knows.”

A telegram in favor of extending Emma Goldman's visa, signed by many members of the University of Chicago faculty and religious leaders around Chicago. The name of Edith Abbott, professor at the School of Social Administration at the University of…

This was the Secretary of Labor’s statement on the meeting of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations officials.

Frances Perkins statement on CIO-AFL meeting

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…

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…

With Frances Perkins initials at end

Copy of Telegram to Boston Globe

Draft of talk on The Working Woman & Marriage

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

Notes on Modern Women, for talk or publication at Cornell University

Statement on resignation of Grace Abbott

Memo on modern culture

Frances Perkins' hand-written notes for a lecture on 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.

Memo for Miss Swartz

Typescript of Perkins' acceptance letter for an appointment to the New York state Industrial Commission