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The Triangle Fire: A Brief History with Documents (Macmillan, 2009). xviii, 137 pp. Stein, Leon (1962). The Triangle Fire. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-8714-9. von Drehle, David (2003). Triangle: The Fire That Changed America. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 978-0-87113-874-3. Further reading
The union also became more involved in electoral politics, in part as a result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on March 25, 1911, in which 146 shirtwaist makers (most of them young immigrant women) either died in the fire [14] that broke out on the eighth floor of the factory, or jumped to their deaths. Many of these workers were unable ...
The Brown Building is a ten-story building that is part of the campus of New York University (NYU), which owns it. [4] It is located at 23–29 Washington Place, between Greene Street and Washington Square East in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, and is best known as the location of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of March 25, 1911, which killed 146 people.
On March 25, 1911, a fire tore through the top three floors of New York's Asch Building, home of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. On the eighth floor, where the blaze began, garment workers and ...
In 1910, Dix was the successful Democratic nominee for governor, and he served one two-year term, January 1911 to December 1912. His term was largely concerned with issues of workplace safety in the wake of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. In 1912, Dix ran for reelection, but lost the Democratic nomination to William Sulzer.
Five minutes before the work week was scheduled to end, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire broke out on the 8th floor of the Asch Building at 23 Washington Place in New York City. The 8th, 9th and 10th floors of the building housed a company that made women's blouses, at that time referred to as shirtwaists. Although the building was ...
The next year, she witnessed the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, a pivotal event in her life. [16] The factory employed hundreds of workers, mostly young women, but lacked fire escapes. In addition, the owner kept all the doors and stairwells locked in order to prevent employees from taking breaks.
Theresa Serber was born in Bar, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Bar, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine) on May 1, 1874, one of seven sisters. [1] Serber and her family were Jewish, and persecuted in Russia, [2] so they emigrated to the United States, settling in Lower East Side of New York City in 1891, and seventeen-year-old Theresa went to work as a cloakmaker in a garment factory.