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Still the worst factory fire in New York City history, the Triangle fire broke out shortly after 4:30 p.m. on March 25, 1911 in the cutting room on the eighth floor. The sweatshop employed over five hundred mostly Jewish immigrant women, and the owners had locked the doors to keep the workers at their sewing machines. A total of 146 died from fire, asphyxiation, trampling, and the collapse of the [MORE]
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New Deal Network: The Triangle Fire, March 25, 1911
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Dated and sourced photographs and artwork of the fire and its aftermath.
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NPR: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
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Streaming RealAudio of an interview with Dana Walden, granddaughter of Rose Freedman, the last living survivor of the fire.
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Photos From the Triangle Factory Fire
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A collection of photographs and analysis from four contexts: general visual analysis, union and labour history, immigrant history, and feminist/gendered history. Includes annotated list of external resources and links. From an American history seminar taught by Stephen Robertson at the University of Sydney.
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The Triangle Factory Fire
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Online exhibit of the Kheel Center at Cornell University covering the store of the fire and labor activism, mourning and relief work, and the following investigation and reform. Includes documents, audio, photographs, and illustrations as well as list of victims and witnesses, bibliography, and related links.
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial
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A collection of primary documents such as safety codes, newspaper accounts, and testimony, as well as victim lists, trial excerpts and summations, and images related to the trial following the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911.
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Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
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Links to several accounts, historical records and photographs, and period information provided by the Lower Hudson Regional Information Center.
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