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What is a Shirtwaist?
A button-down blouse, the functional shirtwaist was valued for its ready-to-wear, workplace appeal and its simple design, originally modeled on menswear shirts. It could be worn jacketless and ...
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A new book examines the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire — which a contributor worries his father might have started
I ask about his Durham Bulls T-shirt. “It’s a long story,” he ... March 25 marks the 111th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 146 mostly Jewish and Italian ...
THE WEEK2y
The forgotten lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Friday marks the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, a tragedy that killed 146 garment workers, many of them young, immigrant women. Some even leapt to their deaths rather than burn ...
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
All bodies recovered from Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire NEW YORK, March 26, 1911 (UP) - One hundred and forty one bodies had been taken to the morgue at 12:45 this morning and there had been seven ...
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Secretary of Labor Julie Su on the Worker Movement 113 Years After the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
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 ...
UPI1y
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
All bodies recovered from Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire NEW YORK, March 26, 1911 (UP) - One hundred and forty one bodies had been taken to the morgue at 12:45 this morning and there had been seven ...