Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Better Living Center Industrial [210] A seven-story building, [208] [211] with 250 exhibits about fashion, food, health, home, leisure, and security. [212] The center included a women's lounge in its penthouse. [213] [211] [212] [213] Chunky Candy Industrial [202] A glass-walled factory where visitors could watch Chunky candy bars being
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on Saturday, March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. [ 1 ] The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers – 123 women and girls and 23 men [ 2 ] – who ...
1894 – Christmas Eve fire in Silver Lake, Oregon, on December 24, killed 43 people including 19 women and children. [4] 1895 – The Rotunda, University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia. 1897 – Fire at the Bazar de la Charité, Paris, France on 4 May, killed 126, mostly women.
March 26, 2024 at 11:20 AM. Immigrant children as young as 14 were found working illegally amid dangerous heavy equipment at a Tennessee firm that makes parts for lawn mowers sold by John Deere ...
Pauline M. Newman (October 18, 1887 – April 8, 1986) was an American labor activist. She is best remembered as the first female general organizer of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) and for six decades of work as the education director of the ILGWU Health Center.
Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children is a Women's and Children's hospital, It is part of Hawaii Pacific Health 's network of hospitals. It is located in Honolulu, Hawaii within neighborhood of Moiliili. Kapiʻolani Medical Center is Hawaii's only children's hospital with a team of physicians and nurses and specialized technology ...
The New England Hospital for Women and Children was founded by Marie Zakrzewska on July 1, 1862. The hospital's goal was to provide patients with competent female physicians, educate women in the study of medicine, and train nurses to care for the sick. [ 1] Until 1951, the hospital remained dedicated to women, it was then renamed to New ...
W. W. Norton & Company. Publication date. 2021. Pages. 348. ISBN. 978-1324004493. The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live is a 2021 nonfiction book by journalist Danielle Dreilinger. The book explores how different areas of skills, knowledge, and investigation were ...