It was the deadliest workplace accident in New York City's history. A dropped match on the 8th floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sparked a fire that killed over a hundred innocent people ...
and other wreckage of the Triangle factory fire are piled in the center of the blaze-scoured room. This is a reproduction on an image from 1911 for the ILGWU's 50th Anniversary exhibit on the Triangle ...
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, located in the top floors of the Asch building in Greenwich Village, was one of many shirtwaist factories operating in Manhattan at the time. This boom in industry ...
On March 25, 1911, a cigarette butt tossed into a bin of fabric scraps starts a deadly fire that sweeps through the eight, ...
On its walls are three plaques recalling the fire and its victims. In the program notes, Wolfe describes the factory workers ... JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century.
The fire spread quickly. On that Saturday in March of 1911, black smoke billowed out of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory near Washington ... This Women’s History Month, I’m reflecting on ...
NEW YORK, March 25, 1911 (UP) - I was walking through Washington Square when a puff of smoke issuing from the factory building ... recovered from Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire NEW YORK, March ...