Frances Perkins – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Frances Perkins, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Frances Perkins
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Frances Perkins is the subject here, and she is one of the few women to hold a cabinet post in American history: she served as Secretary of Labor under Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1945, the longest tenure of anyone in that office. The Bain News Service, a Manhattan agency that sold news photographs to newspapers from the early 1900s onward, made this glass negative, though the record gives no date and its title comes from unverified caption data. Perkins was a central figure in writing the Social Security Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act, so pictures of her from this period document a moment when federal labor policy was being built.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,853 × 3,277 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-29270 |
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