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Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins Visits Golden Gate Bridge Construction
San Francisco, California -- Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins dons a "tin helmet" for her visit to the Golden Gate Bridge project recently. With her are L.E. Stanley (left), a workman on the bridge; and Graver A. McLain, construction boss. She is presiding over a session of the five-state labor conference in San Francisco.
Another original caption: As an individual, not as a cabinet member, Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, received first hand information on the Golden Gate Bridge Project when she surveyed the work while in San Francisco, Calif., recently. Grover A. McLain, steel construction foreman, Madam Perkins and S.E. Stanley, riveter, on the north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Image: Copyright Bettmann/Corbis
Date Photographed: March 27, 1935

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