Frances Perkins Collection, ca. 1933- 1976-

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Frances Perkins Collection, ca. 1933- 1976-

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This collection consists of an oral history interview, correspondence, a bibliography, subject files, and biographical information relating to Frances Perkins (1880-1965). Primary sources in the collection include a transcript (on microfiche) of an oral history interview of her conducted by the Oral History Research Office at Columbia University between 1951-1955 and four pieces of correspondence written by or addressed to Perkins. The latter items consist of an undated note that she wrote "To FDR" while she was the United States Secretary of Labor, 1933-1945, advising him about the content of a Thanksgiving proclamation; a letter to Perkins from Roosevelt (Dec. 1938) concerning a deportation pardon that she had requested; a letter by her to Hugh Hawkins of Amherst College (Sept. 1961) accompanied by a recollection that Perkins wrote for him concerning Mount Holyoke College President Mary Emma Woolley and the selection of a man to succeed her in that office; and a letter to "Perk" (May 1963) from a Mount Holyoke classmate, Charlotte Leavitt Gilpatric, chiefly concerning other members of their class of 1902. The remainder of this collection primarily consists of biographical information about Perkins dating from 1976 to the present. This material includes books, newspaper and journal articles, and published and unpublished biographical studies, sketches and notes. Also included in the collection is a bibliography of writings by or about Perkins prepared by the United States Department of Labor Library in 1937, and several subject files. These files contain material relating to a postage stamp of Perkins issued in 1980 and information about a film and a play based on her life.

3 boxes.10 linear in.

Mount Holyoke College, Williston & Miles-Smith Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7553951

Mount Holyoke College, Williston & Miles-Smith Library

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Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965

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Frances Perkins (born Fannie Coralie Perkins; April 10, 1880 – May 14, 1965) was an American sociologist and workers-rights advocate who served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition. She and Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes were the only original members of the Rooseve...

Hawkins, Hugh

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Mount Holyoke College.

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Columbia University. Oral History Research Office

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Mount Holyoke College. Class of 1902.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Woolley, Mary Emma, 1863-1947

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Mary Emma Woolley, college professor and President of Mount Holyoke College from 1901-1937, was born on July 13, 1863 in South Norwalk, Connecticut to Joseph Judah Woolley, a Congregational minister, and Mary August Ferris Woolley, a schoolteacher. She attended Mrs. Fannie Augur's school in Meriden, Connecticut until her family moved to Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1871, when she enrolled in Providence High School. In 1882 she began attending Wheaton Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts, graduating i...

Gilpatric, Charlotte Leavitt, 1878-1972

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