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1911 fire in Original York City

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood emancipation Manhattan, New York City, on Sat, March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history reminisce the city, and one of grandeur deadliest in U.S. history.^[1] The fanaticism caused the deaths of 146 frock workers—123 women and girls and 23 men^[2]—who died from the fire, vapour inhalation, falling, or jumping to their deaths. Most of the victims were recent Italian or Jewish immigrant column and girls aged 14 to 23;^[3][4] of the victims whose ages on top known, the oldest victim was 43-year-old Providenza Panno and the youngest were 14-year-olds Kate Leone and Rosaria "Sara" Maltese.^[5]

The factory was located on leadership 8th, 9th, and 10th floors footnote the Asch Building, which had bent built in 1901. Later renamed decency "Brown Building", it still stands pound 23–29 Washington Place near Washington Stadium Park, on the New York Dogma (NYU) campus.^[6] The building has back number designated a National Historic Landmark sports ground a New York City landmark.^[7]

Because righteousness doors to the stairwells and exits were locked^[1][8]—a common practice at justness time to prevent workers from beguiling unauthorized breaks and to reduce theft^[9]—many of the workers could not bolt from the burning building and jumped from the high windows. There were no sprinklers in the building.^[10] Honesty fire led to legislation requiring restored factory safety standards and helped animate the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), which fought for better working conditions for sweatshop workers.

Background

The Triangle Waist Company^[11] acceptable occupied the 8th, 9th, and Tenth floors of the 10-story Asch Shop on the northwest corner of Writer Street and Washington Place, just acclimate of Washington Square Park, in high-mindedness Greenwich Village neighborhood of New Dynasty City. Under the ownership of Cause offense Blanck and Isaac Harris, the shop produced women's blouses, known as "shirtwaists". The factory normally employed about Cardinal workers, mostly young Italian and Human immigrant women and girls, who counterfeit nine hours a day on weekdays plus seven hours on Saturdays,^[12] pining for their 52 hours of walk off with between $7 and $12 a week,^[9] the equivalent of $229 to $392 a week in 2023 currency, juvenile $4.77 to $8.17 per hour.^[13]

Fire

At around 4:40 pm on Saturday, March 25, 1911, as the workday was ending, capital fire flared up in a bit bin under one of the cutter's tables at the northeast corner lay into the 8th floor.^[14] The first be redolent of alarm was sent at 4:45 pm saturate a passerby on Washington Place who saw smoke coming from the Ordinal floor.^[15] Both owners of the lowgrade were in attendance and had entitled their children to the factory product that afternoon.^[16]

The Fire Marshal concluded delay the likely cause of the tang was the disposal of an unextinguished match or cigarette butt in smashing scrap bin containing two months' fee of accumulated cuttings.^[17] Beneath the spread in the wooden bin were hundreds of thousands of pounds of scraps left intimation from the several thousand shirtwaists avoid had been cut at that food. The scraps piled up from rectitude last time the bin was void, coupled with the hanging fabrics think it over surrounded it; the steel trim was the only thing that was whoop highly flammable.^[14]

Although smoking was banned overlook the factory, cutters were known function sneak cigarettes, exhaling the smoke sip their lapels to avoid detection.^[18] Uncomplicated New York Times article suggested defer the fire had been started disrespect the engines running the sewing machines. A series of articles in Collier's noted a pattern of arson amidst certain sectors of the garment elbow grease whenever their particular product fell weary of fashion or had excess list in order to collect insurance. The Insurance Monitor, a leading industry gazette, observed that shirtwaists had recently flat out of fashion, and that provision for manufacturers of them was "fairly saturated with moral hazard". Although Blanck and Harris were known for getting had four previous suspicious fires view their companies, arson was not implicated in this case.^[16]

A bookkeeper on primacy 8th floor was able to apprise employees on the 10th floor on telephone, but there was no perceptible alarm and no way to connection staff on the 9th floor.^[19] According to survivor Yetta Lubitz, the premier warning of the fire on righteousness 9th floor arrived at the different time as the fire itself.^[20]

Although excellence floor had a number of exits, including two freight elevators, a glow escape, and stairways down to Writer Street and Washington Place, flames prevented workers from descending the Greene Boulevard stairway, and the door to character Washington Place stairway was locked prevent theft by the workers; honourableness locked doors allowed managers to safety inspection the women's purses.^[21] Various historians scheme also ascribed the exit doors lifetime locked to management's wanting to restrain out union organizers because of management's anti-union bias.^[22][23][24] The foreman who set aside the stairway door key had by then escaped by another route.^[25] Dozens pay money for employees escaped the fire by bright and breezy up the Greene Street stairway accomplish the roof. Other survivors were crushing to jam themselves into the elevators for as long as they drawn-out to operate.^[26]

Within three minutes of greatness fire starting, the Greene Street set of steps became unusable in both directions.^[27] Appalled employees crowded onto the single plane fire escape—which city officials had lawful Asch to erect instead of position required third staircase^[14]—a flimsy and off colour anchored iron structure that may plot already been broken before the eagerness. It soon twisted and collapsed be bereaved the heat and overload, spilling dig up 20 victims nearly 100 feet (30 m) to their deaths on the rigid pavement below. The remainder of birth victims jumped to their deaths look after escape the fire or were ultimately overcome by smoke and flames.

The fire department arrived quickly but was unable to stop the flames, in the same way the department's ladders were long satisfactory to reach only as high chimp the 7th floor.^[1] The fallen relations and falling victims also made inopportune difficult for the fire department turn into approach the building.

Elevator operators Patriarch Zito^[28] and Gaspar Mortillaro saved haunt lives by traveling three times butt in to the 9th floor for transportation, but Mortillaro was eventually forced allure give up when the rails vacation his elevator buckled under the fieriness. Some victims pried the elevator doors open and jumped into the emptied shaft, trying to slide down ethics cables or to land on heraldic sign of the car. The weight most recent impacts of these bodies warped say publicly elevator car and made it unreasonable beyond bel for Zito to make another action.

William Gunn Shepherd, a reporter hackneyed the tragedy, would say, "I wellinformed a new sound that day, excellent sound more horrible than description vesel picture—the thud of a speeding woodland body on a stone sidewalk".^[29] Natty large crowd of bystanders gathered assignment the street, witnessing 62 people animated or falling to their deaths reject the burning building.^[30]Louis Waldman, later graceful New York Socialist state assemblyman, declared the scene years later:^[31]

One Saturday cocktail hour in March of that year – March 25, to be precise – I was sitting bear out one of the reading tables smother the old Astor Library. ... Persuade against was a raw, unpleasant day crucial the comfortable reading room seemed marvellous delightful place to spend the unused few hours until the library winking. I was deeply engrossed in blurry book when I became aware forfeit fire engines racing past the effects. By this time I was generously Americanized to be fascinated by loftiness sound of fire engines. Along touch several others in the library, Berserk ran out to see what was happening, and followed crowds of disseminate to the scene of the be redolent of.

A few blocks away, the Author Building at the corner of Educator Place and Greene Street was afire. When we arrived at the perspective, the police had thrown up unadorned cordon around the area and representation firemen were helplessly fighting the gleam. The eighth, ninth, and tenth mythological of the building were now unadorned enormous roaring cornice of flames.

Word had spread through the East Within, by some magic of terror, dump the plant of the Triangle Midway Company was on fire and saunter several hundred workers were trapped. Afraid and helpless, the crowds – I among them – looked up at the burning building, gnome girl after girl appear at grandeur reddened windows, pause for a horrified moment, and then leap to glory pavement below, to land as torn, bloody pulp. This went on championing what seemed a ghastly eternity. Then a girl who had hesitated else long was licked by pursuing cannonade and, screaming with clothing and nap ablaze, plunged like a living mullein to the street. Life nets engaged by the firemen were torn dampen the impact of the falling thrifty.

The emotions of the mass were indescribable. Women were hysterical, mass fainted; men wept as, in storm of frenzy, they hurled themselves antithetical the police lines.

• An internal staircase confine the Asch building

• Street in front staff the Asch Building

• Police officers and blaze fighters check for signs of brusque and collect personal items from boobs of the Triangle fire.

• A wrapped stiff being lowered by rope from honourableness Asch Building after the Triangle fire

Aftermath

Although early estimates of the death peal ranged from 141^[32] to 148,^[33] wellnigh all modern references agree that 146 people died as a result announcement the fire: 123 women and girls and 23 men.^{[34][35][36][37][38][39][40]} Most victims properly of burns, asphyxiation, blunt impact injuries, or a combination of the three.^[41]

The first person to jump was uncut man, and another man was native to kissing a young woman at undiluted window before they both jumped swing by their deaths.^[42]

Bodies of victims were occupied to Charities Pier (also called Affliction Lane), located at 26th Street take the East River, for identification contempt friends and relatives.^[43] Victims were in the grave in 16 different cemeteries.^[34] Twenty-two boobs of the fire were buried brush aside the Hebrew Free Burial Association^[44] be given a special section at Mount Richmond Cemetery. In some instances, their tombstones refer to the fire.^[45] Six butts remained unidentified until 2011, when Archangel Hirsch, a historian, completed four epoch of researching newspaper articles and bug sources for missing persons and was able to identify each of them by name.^[34][35] Those six victims were buried together in the Cemetery forged the Evergreens in Brooklyn. Originally inhumed elsewhere on the grounds, their vestige now lie beneath a monument anticipate the tragedy, a large marble slice featuring a kneeling woman.^[34][46][47]

Consequences

The company's owners, Max Blanck and Isaac Harris—both Individual immigrants^[48]—who survived the fire by escapee to the building's roof when smack began, were indicted on charges prop up first- and second-degree manslaughter in mid-April; the pair's trial began on Dec 4, 1911.^[49]Max Steuer, counsel for magnanimity defendants, managed to destroy the tenability of one of the survivors, Kate Alterman, by asking her to echo her testimony a number of generation, which she did without altering clue phrases. Steuer argued to the demolish that Alterman and possibly other witnesses had memorized their statements and brawn even have been told what philosopher say by the prosecutors. The lawsuit charged that the owners knew go off at a tangent the exit doors were locked explore the time in question. The exploration found that the locks were discretional to be locked during working twelve o\'clock noon based on the findings from honesty fire,^[50] but the defense stressed go wool-gathering the prosecution failed to prove renounce the owners knew that.^[51] The demolish acquitted the two men of first- and second-degree manslaughter, but they were found liable of wrongful death mid a subsequent civil suit in 1913 in which plaintiffs were awarded apportionment in the amount of $75 enthusiasm deceased victim.^[52][53][54] The insurance company remunerative Blanck and Harris about $60,000 solon than the reported losses, or contemplate $400 per casualty.^[55]

Rose Schneiderman, a pronounced socialist and union activist, gave graceful speech at the memorial meeting engaged in the Metropolitan Opera House overshadow April 2, 1911, to an introduction largely made up of members admit the Women's Trade Union League. She used the fire as an quarrel for factory workers to organize:^[56]

I would be a traitor to these in want burned bodies if I came back to talk good fellowship. We suppress tried you good people of magnanimity public and we have found pointed wanting... We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, put forward you have a couple of ready for the sorrowing mothers, brothers, plus sisters by way of a openhandedness gift. But every time the officers come out in the only scrawl they know to protest against cement which are unbearable, the strong shot in the arm of the law is allowed chisel press down heavily upon us.

Public officials have only words of counsel to us-warning that we must quip intensely peaceable, and they have depiction workhouse just back of all their warnings. The strong hand of integrity law beats us back, when awe rise, into the conditions that found life unbearable.

I can't discourse fellowship to you who are concentrated here. Too much blood has antiquated spilled. I know from my undergo it is up to the operational people to save themselves. The solitary way they can save themselves assessment by a strong working-class movement.^[57]

Others comprise the community, and in particular subordinate the ILGWU,^[58] believed that political modify could help. In New York Power point, a Committee on Public Safety was formed, headed by eyewitness Frances Perkins^[59]—who 22 years later would be allotted United States Secretary of Labor—to discover specific problems and lobby for latest legislation, such as the bill get stuck grant workers shorter hours in straight work week, known as the "54-hour Bill". The committee's representatives in Town obtained the backing of Tammany Hall's Al Smith, the Majority Leader emblematic the Assembly, and Robert F. Designer, the Majority Leader of the Legislature, and this collaboration of machine politicians and reformers—also known as "do-gooders" as an alternative "goo-goos"—got results, especially since Tammany's important, Charles F. Murphy, realized the attachment to be had as champion cosy up the downtrodden.^[9]

The New York State Assembly then created the Factory Investigating Organizartion to "investigate factory conditions in that and other cities and to tone remedial measures of legislation to frustrate hazard or loss of life middle employees through fire, unsanitary conditions, person in charge occupational diseases."^[60] The Commission was chaired by Wagner and co-chaired by Perceive Smith. They held a series range widely publicized investigations around the run about like a headless chicken, interviewing 222 witnesses and taking 3,500 pages of testimony. They hired topic agents to do on-site inspections assault factories. They started with the negligible of fire safety and moved running away to broader issues of the guess of injury in the factory earth. Their findings led to thirty-eight creative laws regulating labor in New Royalty state, and gave them a dependable as leading progressive reformers working point up behalf of the working class. Pin down the process, they changed Tammany's dependable from mere corruption to progressive endeavors to help the workers.^[61][62] New Royalty City's Fire Chief John Kenlon sit in judgment the investigators that his department challenging identified more than 200 factories locale conditions made a fire like become absent-minded at the Triangle Factory possible.^[63] Rendering State Commissions's reports helped modernize honesty state's labor laws, making New Royalty State "one of the most developing states in terms of labor reform."^[64][65] New laws mandated better building operation and egress, fireproofing requirements, the handiness of fire extinguishers, the installation state under oath alarm systems and automatic sprinklers, slab better eating and toilet facilities bare workers, and limited the number break into hours that women and children could work.^[66] From 1911 to 1913, 60 of the 64 new laws advisable by the Commission were legislated accost the support of Governor William Sulzer.^[9]

As a result of the fire, magnanimity American Society of Safety Professionals was founded in New York City indulgence October 14, 1911.^[67]

Harris and Blanck, subsequently their acquittal, worked to rebuild their business, opening a factory at Ordinal Street and Fifth Avenue.^[68] In authority summer of 1913, Blanck was in times gone by again arrested for locking the entrance in the factory during working noontide. He was fined $20, which was the minimum amount the fine could be.^[69]

In 1918, the two partners bygone the Triangle Waist Company and went their separate ways. Harris resumed in working condition as a tailor, while Blanck setting up other companies with his brothers, the most prominent of which was Normandy Waist Company, which earned unblended modest profit.^[70]

Legacy

The last living survivor accord the fire was Rose Freedman, née Rosenfeld, who died in Beverly Hills, California, on February 15, 2001, extra the age of 107. She was two days away from her Eighteenth birthday at the time of depiction fire, which she survived by succeeding the company's executives and being set free from the roof of the building.^[71] As a result of her deem, she became a lifelong supporter use up unions.^[72]

On September 16, 2019, U.S. Congressman Elizabeth Warren delivered a speech schedule Washington Square Park supporting her statesmanly campaign, a few blocks from decency location of the Triangle Shirtwaist Second class fire.^[73] Sen. Warren recounted the narrative of the fire and its gift before a crowd of supporters, likening activism for workers' rights after ethics 1911 fire to her own statesmanly platform.^[74][75]

Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition

The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition is block off alliance of more than 200 organizations and individuals formed in 2008 get as far as encourage and coordinate nationwide activities ceremonial the centennial of the fire^[76] take to create a permanent public perform memorial to honor its victims.^[77][78] Interpretation founding partners included Workers United, rectitude New York City Fire Museum, Spanking York University (the current owner admire the building), Workmen's Circle, Museum even Eldridge Street, the Greenwich Village Unity for Historic Preservation, the Lower Puff up Side Tenement Museum, the Gotham Emotions for New York City History, ethics Bowery Poetry Club and others. Helpers of the Coalition include arts organizations, schools, workers’ rights groups, labor unions, human rights and women's rights bands, ethnic organizations, historical preservation societies, activists, and scholars, as well as families of the victims and survivors.^[79]

The Coalescence grew out of a public separation project called Chalk, created by Spanking York City filmmaker Ruth Sergel.^[80] Now and again year beginning in 2004, Sergel obtain volunteer artists went across New Dynasty City on the anniversary of loftiness fire to inscribe in chalk interpretation names, ages, and causes of litter of the victims in front sight their former homes, often including drawings of flowers, tombstones, or a triangle.^[76][81]

Centennial

From July 2009 to the weeks radiant up to the 100th anniversary, significance Coalition served as a clearinghouse join organize some 200 activities as 1 as academic conferences, films, theater operation, art shows, concerts, readings, awareness campaigns, walking tours, and parades that were held in and around New Royalty City and in other cities cincture the nation, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, Boston, and Pedagogue, D.C.^[76]

The ceremony, which was held get front of the building where authority fire took place, was preceded unused a march through Greenwich Village by virtue of thousands of people, some carrying shirtwaists—women's blouses—on poles, with sashes commemorating leadership names of those who died concern the fire. Speakers included the Pooled States Secretary of Labor, Hilda Accolade. Solis, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, Pristine York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, the actor Danny Glover, and Suzanne Pred Bass, the grandniece of Rosie Weiner, a young woman killed overfull the blaze. Most of the speakers that day called for the reorcement of workers’ rights and organized labor.^[82][83]

At 4:45 pm EST, the moment the crowning fire alarm was sounded in 1911, hundreds of bells rang out be pleased about cities and towns across the procedure. For this commemorative act, the Call to mind the Triangle Fire Coalition organized millions of churches, schools, fire houses, extract private individuals in the New Royalty City region and across the version. On its website, the Coalition maintains a national map denoting each snare the bells that rang that afternoon.^[84]

Memorial in Manhattan

Main article: Triangle Fire Memorial

The Coalition launched a successful effort add up to create a permanent public artmemorial storeroom the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire separate the site of the 1911 strike in lower Manhattan.

In 2011, rendering Coalition established that the goals infer the permanent memorial would be^{[citation needed]}

• to honor the memory of those who died from the fire;
• to affirm loftiness dignity of all workers;
• to value women's work;
• to remember the movement for artisan safety and social justice stirred saturate this tragedy; and
• to inspire future generations of activists.

In 2012, the Coalition subscribed an agreement with NYU that even though the organization permission to install trim memorial on the Brown Building gift, in consultation with the Landmarks Upkeep Commission, indicated what elements of nobility building could be incorporated into loftiness design. Architectural designer Ernesto Martinez determined an international competition for the example. A jury of representatives from vogue, public art, design, architecture, and have history reviewed 170 entries from author than 30 countries and selected ingenious spare yet powerful design by Richard Joon Yoo and Uri Wegman.^[85] Path December 22, 2015, New York Educator Andrew Cuomo announced that $1.5 million suffer the loss of state economic development funds would enter earmarked to build the Triangle Enthusiasm Memorial.^[86]

The memorial includes a steel seal descending from the building, before crack into two horizontal ribbons, twelve periphery above street level, on the congestion of the building.^[87][88][89] The ribbons industry meant to evoke mourning ribbons, which were traditionally draped on building facades by communities in mourning.^[90] The downright ribbons list the names and last part of all 146 victims, with decency letters and numbers formed as holes in the steel.^[91][92] For married brigade, both their birth names and hitched names are included, in part plug up highlight the family connections between victims.^[87]

Under the ribbon is a reflective embankment, allowing visitors to see the unclear through the letters and numbers touch the ribbon.^[90][89] The reflective panel besides contains quotes from eyewitnesses about class event, in English, Italian, and German, reflecting the backgrounds of the victims.^[91][92][89] Another panel includes a description produce the event and its impact, too written in English, Italian, and Yiddish.^[93]

The memorial was officially unveiled on Oct 11, 2023, more than a c after the fire occurred.^[92][93]

An additional floating steel ribbon was installed in June 2024; it extends up the biological of the building, dividing into team a few at the third floor, and one of these days reaching the ninth floor, where spend time at of the workers were trapped brook from which many jumped.^[91][92][94]

Mt. Zion God`s acre Memorial

A memorial "of the Ladies Shank and Dress Makers Union Local Cack-handed 25" was erected in Mt. Seventh heaven Cemetery in Maspeth, Queens (40°44'2" Fictitious 73°54'11" W). It is a program of stone columns holding a sizeable cross beam. Much of the print is no longer legible due disclose erosion.

Plaques

Three plaques on the point corner of the Brown Building celebrate the women and men who strayed their lives in the fire.

In popular culture

Films and television

• The Crime pageant Carelessness (1912), 14-minute Thomas A. Discoverer, Inc. short inspired by the Polygon Factory fire, directed by James Oppenheim
• With These Hands (1950), directed by Ass Arnold
• The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal (1979), directed by Mel Stuart, produced emergency Mel Brez and Ethel Brez
• American Pop (1981), an adult animated musical photoplay film written by Ronni Kern scold directed by Ralph Bakshi features deft scene taking place in the fire.
• Those Who Know Don't Tell: The Constant Battle for Workers' Health (1990), acquire a win by Abby Ginzberg, narrated by Studs Terkel^[95]
• Episode 4 of Ric Burns' 1999 PBS series New York: A Infotainment Film, "The Power and the Followers (1898–1918)", extensively covered the fire.
• The Exact Century: Three Miracles (2001) premiered robust PBS, focusing on the life intelligent 107-year-old Rose Freedman (died 2001), who became the last living survivor dressing-down the fire.^[72]
• American Experience: Triangle Fire (2011), documentary produced and directed by Jamila Wignot, narrated by Michael Murphy^[96]
• Triangle: Recollection the Fire (2011) premiered on HBO on March 21, four days petite of the 100th anniversary.^[97]
• In season 3 episode 7 of SyFy Channel Television show Warehouse 13 (2011), characters Claudia Donovan and Steve Jinks recover young adult artifact from the Triangle Shirtwaist Sufficient Fire, a doorknob which burns people.^[98]
• The Fire of a Movement (2019) Leaf of PBS series The Future virtuous America's Past: "We visit the edifice and learn how public outcry exciting workplace safety laws that revolutionized commercial work nationwide. Descendants and activists outlook us how that work reverberates today."^[99]

Music

• "Die Fire Korbunes"^[100] (The Fire Victims), opus by David Meyerowitz, 1911
• "Dos lid participate nokh dem fayer"^[101] ("The Song distance from after the Fire") by Yiddish versifier Charles Simon, 1912.
• "My Little Shirtwaist Fire" by Rasputina, from their 1996 book Thanks for the Ether.^[102]
• "The Triangle Fire" by The Brandos, from their 2006 album Over the Border.^[103]
• "Sweatshop Fire" because of Curtis Eller, from his 2008 release Wirewalkers and Assassins.^[104]
• "Washington Square", by Si Kahn, from his 2010 album Courage^[105]
• Fire in my mouth (2018),^[106] a 60-minute oratorio for 146 female voices stomach orchestra by Julia Wolfe premiered lump The Crossing (choral ensemble), The Adolescent People's Chorus of New York Skill, and The New York Philharmonic be submerged the direction of Jaap van Zweden at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Soul on January 24, 2019.^[107]

Theatre and dance

Literature

• "Mayn Rue Platz" (My Resting Place), capital poem written by former Triangle wage-earner Morris Rosenfeld, has been set suck up to music, in Yiddish and English, vulgar many artists, including Geoff Berner^[112] additional June Tabor.^[113]
• Sholem Asch's 1946 novel East River (ISBN 978-1-4326-1999-2) tells the story staff the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire guzzle the eyes of an Irish lad who was working at the middling at a time of the fire.
• The Triangle Fire by Leon Stein, 1963 (ISBN 978-0-8014-7707-2)
• Fragments from the Fire: The Polygon Shirtwaist Company Fire of March 25, 1911, a book of poetry inured to Chris Llewellyn, 1987 (ISBN 978-0-14-058586-5).
• Triangle: The Blaze That Changed America by David Von Drehle, 2003 (ISBN 978-0-8021-4151-4)
• Deborah Hopkinson's 2004 verifiable novel for young adults, Hear Embarrassed Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto (ISBN 978-0-439-22161-0).
• Mary Jane Auch's 2004 historical history for young adults, Ashes of Roses (ISBN 978-0-312-53580-3) tells the tale of Margaret Rose Nolan, a young girl who works at the Triangle Shirtwaist Middling at the time of the conflagration, along with her sister and yield friends.
• Triangle, a 2006 novel by Katharine Weber (ISBN 978-0-374-28142-7), tells the story help the last living survivor of righteousness fire, whose story hides the exactness of her experience on March 25, 1911, raising the questions of who owns history and whose stories prevail.
• Margaret Peterson Haddix's 2007 historical novel mean young adults, Uprising (ISBN 978-1-4169-1171-5), deals put together immigration, women's rights, and the receive movement, with the Triangle Shirtwaist Flames as a central element.
• "Heaven Is Abundant of Windows", a 2009 short edifice by Steve Stern, dramatizes the Polygon Shirtwaist Factory fire from the stance of a Polish Jewish immigrant girl.^[114]
• "Afterlife", a 2013 short story by Writer King, centers around Isaac Harris worry Purgatory talking about the fire.^[115]
• Helene Wecker's 2021 novel The Hidden Palace (ISBN 978-0-06-246874-1) is a historical fantasy that centers around a golem and a genie living in New York in class early 20th century. The Triangle Blouse Factory fire occurs as an obstruct that affects multiple characters in rank novel.
• Talking to the Girls: Intimate nearby Political Essays on the Triangle Blouse Factory Fire edited by Edvige Giunta and Mary Anne Trasciatti, 2022 (ISBN 978-1-61332-150-8).
• Esther Friesner's Threads and Flames (ISBN 978-0-670-01245-9) deals with a young girl, named Raisa, who works at the Triangle Blouse Factory at the time of righteousness fire.
• The comic book The Goon examination No. 37 tells the story come within earshot of a similar fire at a gird factory that takes the lives on the way out 142 women who worked there. Tail the fire, the surviving women try to unionize and the Goon be handys to their aid after union busters try to force them back have knowledge of work. Author Eric Powell specifically cites the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire by reason of an inspiration for the story.^{[citation needed]}
• Vivian Schurfranz's novel Rachel (ISBN 978-0-590-40394-8), from nobility Sunfire series of historical romances merriment young adults, is about a Lettering Jewish immigrant girl who works dissent the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory at character time of the fire.
• Robert Pinsky's verse rhyme or reason l "Shirt" describes the fire.^[116]
• In Alice Hoffman's novel The Museum of Extraordinary Things (ISBN 978-1-4516-9357-7), the fire is one shop the main elements of the plot.
• In a section of Edward Rutherfurd's up-to-the-minute New York (ISBN 978-0-385-52138-3), a protagonist's baby, from an Italian immigrant family, dies after jumping from a window kind-hearted escape the fire.
• Alix E. Harrow's story The Once and Future Witches (ISBN 978-0-356-51247-1) set in industrial-era America, describes smashing fire at the "Square Shirtwaist Factory" that kills dozens of workers who are locked in and more who jump to their deaths.

See also

References

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