Friday marks the 100th anniversary of the deadly fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City's Greenwich Village. The conflagration cost Read the rest
March 25, 2011 is the Centennial of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire which took the lives of 146 workers,mostly young immigrant women, and galvanized a Read the rest
N EAR C LOSING T IME ON M ARCH 25, 1911, a fire broke out at the Triangle Waist Factory . Within 18 minutes, 146 people were dead as a result of the fire. Read the rest
Extensive Web site focusing primarily on how newspapers and the press covered major, and not so major, events in American history. Also information for newspaper Read the rest
The seamstresses were just getting off work that Saturday, some of them singing a new popular song, "Every Little Movement (Has a Meaning of Its Own)," when they Read the rest
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York and resulted in Read the rest
A collection of primary documents, essays, maps, photos, and other materials relating to the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial of 1911. This site will be constructed in Read the rest
T he fire at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 young immigrant workers, is one of the worst disasters since the beginning of the Read the rest
In the 100 years since the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire, as it is commonly recorded in history books, the story has been told many times about the poor Read the rest
Leap for Life, Leap of Death. 275 girls started to collect their belongings as they were leaving work at 4:45 PM on Saturday. Within twenty minutes some of girls Read the rest