The factory was overcrowded and its exits locked or inaccessible, and the sight of women and girls leaping to their deaths haunted Greenwich Village for generations. In the aftermath, there were ...
Friday marks the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire ... than burn alive in the factory they were trapped in (the exit door was locked). The fire incited nationwide debate 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 ...
March 25 marks the 111th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 146 mostly Jewish and Italian immigrant garment workers, mainly women, in just 18 minutes. Friday will ...
March 25th marks the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in downtown Manhattan. The fire started in a scrap bin on the 8th floor of the factory building, claiming the lives ...
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 anniversary of the historic factory fire that birthed the labor movement ... who lost their lives at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory by Washington Square Park. The factory operated on the ...
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 ...
It uses eyewitness accounts, court transcripts and other archives to construct a gripping tale about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on March 25, 1911, which killed 146 workers in the ...