On March 25, 1911, 146 people, mostly young female immigrants, were killed when a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist ...
Inside a building in Greenwich Village, NYU Ph.D. and postdoctoral students follow a familiar routine. They take the elevator ...
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, ...
As calls for immigrants’ rights reverberate throughout the country these days, an upcoming anniversary can serve as a ...
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KINGSTON, N.Y. — The Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History at 101 Broadway in the Rondout Area will host a commemoration of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire on Wednesday, March 24, ...
Fannie Lansner – the 21-year-old sister of our columnist’s grandfather – and 145 others perished in the 1911 factory blaze that sparked a revolution in workplace safety, building codes, and ...
For years, when I brought tour groups to the Brown Building (formerly the Asch Building) at Greene St. and Washington Place ...
When the young women of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sat down before their Singer sewing machines on Saturday, Mar. 25, ...
Death on the job was a routine hazard for American workers a century ago. About 100 workers, on average, died every day as mines collapsed, ships sank, trains crashed and factories burned. Nearly all ...