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Photograph of Frances Perkins at Safety Costumes Conference
Frances Perkins photographed with female workers in various protective gear
Wives of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Cabinet Members at Table
Cabinet wives at table
Frances Perkins shakes hands with workers at Todd Shipyards
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…
Labor Dept 25th Anniversary Celebration, photograph and caption
Labor Dept 25th
Secretary Perkins Investigates Mining Area, photograph and caption
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…
Fala, President Franklin Roosevelt's Dog, Listening to a Radio, photograph and two captions
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.”…
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt with Frances Perkins and Other on a Train
FDR w/ Frances Perkins and others
Governor Franklin Roosevelt with New York State Departmental Heads
Governor Roosevelt and his department heads, Albany, in the Executive Chamber.
Includes creator's name in bottom right corner, but the name is illegible.
Includes creator's name in bottom right corner, but the name is illegible.
Al Smith speaking into an NBC microphone
Perkins gathered these and other photographs of Al Smith for her unpublished biography.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.
New York’s Worst Fire, unnumbered page
Harper’s Weekly printed many photographs from “New York’s Worst Fire”, the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire; a copy was kept by Frances Perkins
Inauguration Ceremonies Program, front cover
Front cover of the Inauguration Ceremonies Program for President Franklin Roosevelt's first term in office.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Diagram
Diagram drawn by FDR on White House stationery, sent to Frances Perkins
Photos and printed captions of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
Includes photographs of the building after the fire, persons deceased in the fire, and lines of people waiting to identify the deceased at the New York City morgue
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…