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Governor Roosevelt and Department Heads
Photograph, Albany, New York, ca. 1929
Frances Perkins Papers, Box 61
Governor Roosevelt and his department heads, Albany, in the Executive Chamber.
Gift of Frances Perkins
New York State Department of Labor
Workmen’s Compensation Law and Industrial Board Rules … Issued Under the Direction of Frances Perkins Industrial Commissioner
[Albany, New York]: Bureau of Statistics and Information, 1930
Frances Perkins Papers, Box 151
Perkins’s interest in occupational diseases is clearly shown by her annotations in this copy of the 1930 New York State Workmen’s Compensation Law, the only part of the booklet with annotations.
Gift of Susanna Perkins Coggeshall, 1970
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Printed invitation with manuscript additions
Albany, March, [1929]
Frances Perkins Papers, Box 62
This invitation to dinner at the Executive Mansion in Albany is addressed to “Mr. and Mrs. Wilson.” Perkins was adamant about the use of her maiden name for her professional career, but allowed the use of her married name in private life.
Gift of Frances Perkins
Consumers’ League of new York
Luncheon…Hotel Commodore, March 1, 1929
Typescript with autograph notes of Frances Perkins on cover
Frances Perkins Papers, Box 121A
The close working relationship of Governor Roosevelt and Industrial Commissioner Perkins shines through in these remarks, here taken down in dictation, delivered to the Consumers’ League of New York. Note that this event took place in March of 1929. Her mention of the U.S. being in a period of “general prosperity” would be short-lived.
Gift of Susanna Perkins Coggeshall, 1970
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
[On the unemployment situation and appointment of a special committee to eliminate unemployment]
Albany, [Spring, 1930]
Typescript, carbon, with pencil corrections by Frances Perkins
Frances Perkins Papers, Box 106C
Governor Roosevelt here appoints a special committee to address the issues of unemployment in New York State, with the Industrial Commissioner to serve as an ex-officio member, working toward industrial stabilization and the prevention of unemployment.
Gift of Susanna Perkins Coggeshall, 1970
Felix Frankfurter
[Statement on the unemployment situation under President Hoover]
Typescript with autograph corrections and additions
by Frances Perkins, [Cambridge, Mass.], before 22 April 1930
with
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Typed note to Frances Perkins, with her pencil notes
Albany, 22 April 1930
Frances Perkins Papers, Box 61
Felix Frankfurter here sends Governor Roosevelt the draft of a challenge to President Hoover on the country’s unemployment situation, writing: “The latest official utterance on unemployment from the White House … follows out the prediction made two months earlier and assures the country that the crises is virtually passed. The President’s informants are ‘governors and mayors all over the country,’ who ‘with one exception,’ are agreed that the worst is over. That exception obviously is the State of New York.”
Gift of Frances Perkins
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Typed letter to Frances Perkins, signed by a secretary, with autograph note by Perkins
Albany, 12 September 1932
Frances Perkins Papers, Box 106C
Perkins threw her energy into Roosevelt’s 1932 campaign for the presidency. Here he sends his thanks, writing: “I need not tell you how happy it made me, and I am sure also, I need not add that you have been a great help to me. I have always been proud of my appointment of you.” Perkins wrote at the bottom: “Keep this in my personal ‘archives’ for the grand-children.” Today, her grandson, Tomlin Perkins Coggeshall, has created the Frances Perkins Center at the Brick House, the family home in Newcastle, Maine.
Gift of Susanna Perkins Coggeshall, 1978
Frances Perkins
The Cost of a Five-Dollar Dress
New York: Survey Graphic, February 1933
Frances Perkins Papers, Box 46
As New York State Industrial Commissioner, Perkins published this expose of sweatshops of New York City. She would bring these same arguments for sweeping reform to President-elect Roosevelt on February 25, when he asked her to join his cabinet.
Gift of Frances Perkins