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![Frances Perkins (ddr-njpa-1-1142)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/16/d6/16d62398cc428bdd4c909594c6f09a7b.jpg)
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Frances Perkins (ddr-njpa-1-1142)
Caption on reverse [translation]: "[...] overseas telegram that the president [...] Secretary of Labor Perkins invited labor respresentatives [...]. Photograph: [...] exiting following the conference (from left) William Green, President of the AFL [...] John Lewis, President of the CIO [...]."
![Frances Perkins (ddr-njpa-1-1140)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/4a/de/4ade1d2c1bfe7a8152105e5ba7195ec6.jpg)
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Frances Perkins (ddr-njpa-1-1140)
Caption on reverse [translation]: "Transmission of Individual's Photograph. Frances Perkins (No. 3,545). First female cabinet member in President Roosevelt's cabinet. Famous as (secretary of labor)."
![Portrait of Frances Perkins (ddr-njpa-1-1139)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/15/4f/154f162bc3ea6b4fe5997412ee99c4e2.jpg)
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Portrait of Frances Perkins (ddr-njpa-1-1139)
Caption on reverse [translation]: "Frances Perkins (No. 3,754). US Secretary of Labor."
![Clipping regarding Frances Perkins (ddr-njpa-1-1141)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/96/4d/964da818b8951ea590aa2ab8058b4f6f.jpg)
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Clipping regarding Frances Perkins (ddr-njpa-1-1141)
Caption on front: "Madam secretary faces a camera and a microphone: Miss Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, photographed as she was about to begin a broadcast from her office in Washington. (Harris & Ewing from Times Wide World Photos.)"
![Frances Perkins at a Department of Commerce banquet (ddr-njpa-1-1143)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/e3/db/e3db6951e509d4213f3b8367fdf0dbf7.jpg)
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Frances Perkins at a Department of Commerce banquet (ddr-njpa-1-1143)
Caption on reverse [translation]: "The Flourishing Female Secretary Mrs. Wallace. (Washington) Domei. The flourishing Labor Secretary Frances Perkins (left) and the wife of Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace (right) attending the 26th anniversary banquet held by the Department of Commerce on May 5. [Stamped] June 11, 1938."
![Frances Perkins giving a speech to the steelworkers union (ddr-njpa-1-1144)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/12/e2/12e284acc3066081fc8ad103caf5a250.jpg)
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Frances Perkins giving a speech to the steelworkers union (ddr-njpa-1-1144)
Caption on reverse [translation]: "Female Secretary Perkins. (Indianapolis) Rengo February 27. Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, the first American female cabinet secretary, attended and gave a speech at the national meeting of the national steelworkers union recently held here. This was her first address in front of a large audience of this kind, but she surprised all …