This is a reproduction on an image from 1911 for the ILGWU's 50th Anniversary exhibit on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. The copyright status and copyright owners of most of the images in the ...
In 1913, Harris and Blanck moved the Triangle Shirtwaist Company to a bigger ... settlement with the victims' families in which the factory owners paid out a week's worth of wages for each worker.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Memorial was organized by the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition ... Unfortunately for the workers, though, many shops were still in the hands of unscrupulous ...
According to the Museum of the City of New York, a garment worker in 1905 was expected to sew at a rate twice that of her 1900 counterpart. The factories had scant safety or fire protection, mandated ...
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 ...
The fire spread quickly. On that Saturday in March of 1911, black smoke billowed out of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory near Washington Square Park in New York City. The panicked workers inside ...