On March 25, 1911, a fire that broke out in a bin holding scraps of fabric at the Triangle Waist Company, just down the block from New York City’s Washington Square Park, quickly spread, fed by ...

On this day: 146 killed in Triangle factory fire 03:49. A beautiful spring afternoon in New York City turned tragic when a factory fire broke out on the top floors of a Greenwich Village building ...

A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City killed 146 people on this day in history, March 25, 1911 — leading to a host of worker safety reforms.

by Jesse Zanger. Click here to see part 1 of Remembering The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: What Happened. WHAT CHANGED. As New Yorkers, we know that horrors visited upon us reverberate around the nation.

In 1911, demonstrators protested following the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City. RBM Vintage Images / Alamy Stock Photo Editor's Note, December 21, 2018: After receiving ...

This week marks 100 years since a fire at the Triangle Waist Company factory in New York City killed 146 people, most of them poor young women. The event is often cited as the catalyst for modern ...

How 1911’s horrific, deadly Triangle building fire rewrote labor laws By . Hannah Sparks and Maple Shipp. Published May 27, 2021. Updated May 28, 2021, 3:06 p.m. ET. Explore More ...

Rosenfeld, who died in 2001 at 107 years old, was the final survivor of the fire. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory occupied the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors of the fireproof Asch Building.

On March 25, 1911, 146 people died as a result of a fire that broke out on the top floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

Emergency relief after the Washington Place Fire, New York, March 25, 1911 / report of the Red Cross Emergency Relief Committee of the Charity Organization of the Society of the City of New York (1912 ...

March 25, 1911 started off like any other Saturday at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.It was the final day of the six-day standard work week in the New York City sweatshops where mentally exhaustin… ...

In 1911, a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist clothing factory caused 146 deaths, mostly immigrant girls and women. The New York City disaster eventually galvanized the U.S. labor movement to protect ...