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The fire
The Triangle Shirtwaist Company occupied the top three floors of the ten-story Asch building in New York City at the intersection of Greene Street and Washington Place, just east of Washington Square.
The company employed approximately 500 workers, mostly young female immigrants who worked fourteen-hour days, during a 60- to 72-hour workweek sewing clothes for a wage of 6 to 10 dollars per week.
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Just learned about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Google it.
thartyman (thartyman) Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:57:49 -0000
Just learned about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Google it.
New Deal Network: The Triangle Fire, March 25, 1911 - Dated and sourced photographs and artwork of the fire and its aftermath.
NPR - Weekend All Things Considered: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - Streaming RealAudio of an interview with Dana Walden, granddaughter of Rose Freedman, the last living survivor of the fire.
Photos From the Triangle Factory Fire - A collection of photographs and analysis from four contexts: general visual analysis, union and labour history, immigrant history, and feminist/gendered history. Includes annotated list of external resources and links. From an American history seminar taught by Stephen Robertson at the University of Sydney.
The Triangle Factory Fire - Online exhibit of the Kheel Center at Cornell University covering the store of the fire and labor activism, mourning and relief work, and the following investigation and reform. Includes documents, audio, photographs, and illustrations as well as list of victims and witnesses, bibliography, and related links.
Meta Description: [ Online Exhibit from Cornell University's Kheel Center on the Triangle Fire disaster of 1911 - a terrible and unnecessary tragedy involving the death of 146 young people in a New York City sweatshop and the resulting investigations and reforms. Original documents, oral histories, photographs prese... ]
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial - A collection of primary documents such as safety codes, newspaper accounts, and testimony, as well as victim lists, trial excerpts and summations, and images related to the trial following the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911.
Meta Description: [ A collection of primary documents, essays, maps, photos, and other materials relating to the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial of 1911. This site will be constructed in late 2002., Original essays, trial transcript, images, chronology, newspaper accounts, fire report, and other materials relating t... ]
Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire - Links to several accounts, historical records and photographs, and period information provided by the Lower Hudson Regional Information Center.
