Perkins, Frances

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Letters from Frances Perkins to Frances White. The collection also includes a sheet of U.S. postage stamps commemorating Ms. Perkins, and newspaper clippings concerning her life, career, and death.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of lectures given by Miss Perkins at Cornell University in the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Subject areas covered are generally labor related with emphasis on the history of the labor movement during her appointment as Secretary of Labor. Discussed are the effect of the Roosevelt administration on labor; New York State labor; labor legislation; poverty; various labor leaders and labor organizations as well as significant labor...

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Letter of January 16, 1948 from Frances Perkins to Donald G. Stetson, thanking him for his letter of January 9 and congratulating him on his admission to Cornell University.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection:

Correspondence, news clippings, and articles relating to George J. Hecht (Cornell University Class of 1917). Correspondents of note include John Lovejoy Elliot of the Ethical Culture Society and the Hudson Guild, William DeForest, James G. Blain, and Senators Hubert Humphrey, Lister Hill, Cleveland Bailey, and Robert Kennedy. Also included are three taped interviews and transcripts, 1974.

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Research notes, articles and other publications, and manuscript drafts.

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Audio tapes of interviews with Maurice Neufeld, Mary Jean Collins, Karen DeCrow, Lois Galgay Reckitt, Alice Cook and Sonia Johnson.