At first a crusader for workplace safety, the trained physician railed against the use of the toxic and ubiquitous material ...

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, many of them young ...

opening shirtwaist factories in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Blanck partnered with his brothers and opened more around the country. Harris and Blanck with Triangle factory workers ...

In Manhattan alone, there were over 450 textile factories, employing approximately 40,000 garment workers, many of them immigrants. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, located in the top floors of ...

and other wreckage of the Triangle factory fire are piled in the center of the blaze-scoured room. This is a reproduction on an image from 1911 for the ILGWU's 50th Anniversary exhibit on the Triangle ...

In 1911, a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City killed 146 people, mostly female immigrant workers. The tragedy led to the eventual enactment of many state and national ...

On March 25, 1911, a cigarette butt tossed into a bin of fabric scraps starts a deadly fire that sweeps through the eight, ...