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Frances Perkins - Champion of American Workers
by Ruth Cashin Monsell

Frances Perkins Gallery

annie Perkins about age 3

Time Magazine cover portrait, 1933

Frances as a genial elder stateswoman in the 1960's

Monsell plays Perkins, Ruth as Madam Secretary in "The Only Woman in the Room" at Lincoln Theater, ME, 2022

Frances on stage with Tom Handel as Supreme Court Justice Stone

Ruth at the homestead, now the Frances Perkins Center, Newcastle, Maine

The logo of the Frances Perkins Center

The FPC today

The book launch party with an audience of board members, supporters of the FPC and old friends.

About to begin at the book launch party at the Frances Perkins Center, June

Taking audience questions

After being introduced by Giovanna Lockhart, Executive Director of the FPC

In the beautiful FPC barn June 14, with over 50 guests.

Beginning slide show at the Boothbay Rotary presentation

Three pen and ink drawings by the author showing important sites in Perkins' life

The coast of Maine

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The U.S. Capitol

The Shirtwaist factory fire

There are 44 more images in the book, spanning Perkins' lifetime

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