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 ...
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 ...
Workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory become trapped after a tossed match ignites an enormous fire. Exits are blocked ... floor windows in attempt to escape. The 146 victims were mostly ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
School students will recognize the name of Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve as a member of a presidential cabinet.
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 ...