Students will retell the 1911 fire through eyewitness accounts and courtroom testimony, performing locally Tuesday, Jan. 20, ...
On March 25, 1911, 146 workers perished when a fire broke out in a garment factory in New York City. For 90 years, it stood as New York's deadliest workplace disaster. Bettmann/CORBIS On March 25, ...
On Saturday, March 25, 1911, 146 workers, mostly young immigrant women, died in a factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Although workplace deaths weren’t uncommon in the ...
A little more than a century ago, in the rapidly developing United States of America, nearly 1,000 workers died on the job every week, on average. Collapsed mines buried them alive. Bursting steam ...
Prelude : the tragic heart -- Huddled masses -- Into the magic cauldron -- Flesh and blood so cheap -- An overflow of suffering : uprising of the 20,000 -- The third gate : fire at the triangle -- A ...
"Delaware Art Museum: Selected Treasures," London: Scala Publishers, Ltd. in association with the Delaware Art Museum, 2004, pg. 75. An illustration memorializing the events of March 25, 1911, when ...
It's very near the 100 year anniversary of an important event you've forgotten the details about--or maybe never even knew happened. But, a century after New York's Triangle Shirtwaist fire on March ...