TRIANGLE FACTORY FIRE

 

TRIANGLE FACTORY FIRE

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DRAGONDEN PRODUCTIONS BRICK BACKGROUND WITH LOGO. © TM DRAGONDEN PRODUCTIONS LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. FONTS: DRAGONDEN: WOLFS BANE II LICENSED ICONIAN FONTS.  ARIAL BOLD  AMERICAN TYPEWRITER.

 

  Six Women Striking near City Hall, December 1909

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  The spectre of Death, in the form of a large skeleton, rises with the smoke and flames of the burning Asch Building during the Triangle fire, as people jump and fall to their death.

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Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, owners of the Triangle Waist Company

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Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, Triangle Waist Company owners in a group portrait, possibly with Triangle factory workers and visitors

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New York Times, March 26, 1911, p. 1 “141 Men and Girls Die in Waist Factory Fire” WINDOWS MARKED X FROM WHICH FIFTY GIRLS JUMPED – SOUTH SIDE OF BUILDING

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  New York World Front Page March 26 - 1911

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  Horse drawn fire engines on their way to the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire, New York City, March 25, 1911 LOC

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  Bodies of some of the workers who jumped from windows to escape Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire, New York City, March 25, 1911 Brown Brothers

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  Photo of New York Shirtwaist Factory Holocaust; Taking Down Descriptions of the Dead. The Pensacola Journal 31 March 1911

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  Interior of the Triangle Waist Company shop in the Asch Building 9th floor after the Triangle Fire  

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  Crowds fill the street and watch as the Asch Building, location of the Triangle Waist Company, burns, March 25, 1911

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  Newspaper photographs of the Asch Building’s exterior after the Triangle Fire

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New York Evening Journal Newspaper photographs of the Asch Building after the Triangle Fire. Center shows hole in sidewalk made by falling bodies.

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  Newspaper photographs of the Triangle Fire, showing victims on the ground outside the Asch Building and at the morgue, March 27, 1911.

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  The front page of the New York Evening Journal “Fire Trap Victims Buried” “Draft New Law to Save Shop Workers” “Woman Tells of Fight for Life at Barred Doors” “Who Is Responsible” March 28 1911

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  New York Journal Political Cartoon by Tad Dorgan 1911

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Portrait of two young women believed to have died in the Triangle fire. 1911. Their names are not known.

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   Police and Fire Officials place Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Victims in coffins. 25 March 1911. LOC

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  Police and Fire Officials place Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Victims in coffins. 25 March 1911. LOC

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People and horses draped in black walk in procession in memory of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire, New York City, 1911.  LOC

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  Hundreds of mourners gather around a funeral procession for victims of the Triangle fire. April 1911

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  Mourners line the streets during a funeral procession for victims of the Triangle fire, April 5, 1911

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  Coroner Holzhauser, and Assistant District Attorneys J. Robert Rubin and Charles Bostwick investigate the roof of the Asch Building in order to prepare their prosecution of Max Blanck and Isaac Harris

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  The Brown Building Plaque. Photo by Muncharelli 2012

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  The Brown Building Plaque. Photo by Muncharelli 2012

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire building. Photo by Beyond My Ken 15 March 2011

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Brown Building from west. Photo by Beyond My Ken 15 March 2011

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100th Anniversary of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 25 March 2011by Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Memorial at Mt. Zion Cemetery by AlanEisen 22 May 2021

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  Two Women Strikers during the “Uprising of the 20,000” garment workers strike, New York City LOC

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Two Women Strikers during the “Uprising of the 20,000” garment workers strike, New York City LOC

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Illustration depicting a wrapped corpse being lowered by rope from the Asch Building following the Triangle fire

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https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/triangle-shirtwaist-fire

 

“Remembering The Triangle Factory Fire”  CORNELL.EDU ACCESSED 29 NOVEMBER 2022. https://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu

 

“The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire” OSHA.GOV. ACCESSED 29 November 2022. https://www.osha.gov/aboutosha/40-years/trianglefactoryfire

 

Von Drehle, David “Uncovering the History of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire”  SMITHSONIAN.  August 2006. ACCESSED 29 NOVEMBER 2022. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/uncovering-the-history-of-the-triangle-shirtwaist-fire-124701842/

 

“Triangle Shirtwaist Fire” AFL-CIO.ORG. ACCESSED 29 NOVEMBER 2022. https://aflcio.org/about/history/labor-history-events/triangle-shirtwaist-fire

 

“Triangle History”  Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Memorial. ACCESSED 29 NOVEMBER 2022. https://trianglememorial.org/triangle-history/

 

Wagner, Ella. “Triangle Shirtwaist Factory (Brown Building)” National Park Service. ACCESSED 29 NOVEMBER 2022. https://www.nps.gov/places/triangle-shirtwaist-factory-brown-building.htm

 

Wagner, Ella. “International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union” National Park Service. ACCESSED 29 NOVEMBER 2022. https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/international-ladies-garment-workers-union.htm

 

“Triangle shirtwaist factory fire: BRITTANICA.COM. ACCESSED 29 NOVEMBER 2022. https://www.britannica.com/event/Triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire

 

“Historical Statistics of the United States” Series E 187-202 RETAIL PRICES  Retail Prices of Selected Foods in U.S. Cities (BLS) : 1890-1970  BABEL.HATHITRUST.ORG. ACCESSED 29 NOVEMBER 2022. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951000014585x&view=1up&seq=233

 

Whitaker, Jan “When Coffee Was King”. Restaurant-ing Through History  21 February 2016.  ACCESSED 29 November 2022. https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/2016/02/21/when-coffee-was-king/

   

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