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SOURCES

Image Sources 

 

PRIOR TO 1911

 

Fig. 1. “Landing at Ellis Island,” 1902. Photomechanical print. Prints and Photographs Depository, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. From: Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97501086/ (accessed April 22, 2021). 

 

Fig. 2. Kalamazoo Public Library. “Kalamazoo Corset Company 1912,” 1912. Photograph. Kalamazoo Public Library, Kalamazoo. Available from: Wikipedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalamazoo_Corset_Company_1912_0024_(16990800065)_(cropped).jpg (accessed April 22, 2021). 

 

Fig. 3. Bain News Service. “Strikes, ladies tailors, N.Y., Feb. 1910, picket girls on duty,” 1910. Photographic print. Prints and Photographs Depository, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. From: Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002709190/ (accessed April 22, 2021). 

 

Fig. 4. Brown Brothers. “Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, owners of the Triangle Waist Company,” c. 1900. Photograph. Kheel Center, Ithaca. Available from: Wikipedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Max_Blanck_and_Isaac_Harris,_owners_of_the_Triangle_Waist_Company_(5279933972).jpg (accessed April 22, 2021). 

 

Fig. 5. Mico Filós. “Triangle building,” 2009. Photograph. Available from: Wikipedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Triangle_Building.jpg (accessed April 22, 2021). 

 

THE FIRE 

 

Fig. 1. “Image of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on March 25 - 1911,” 1911. Photograph. Kheel Center, Ithaca. Available from: Wikipedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_of_Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire_on_March_25_-_1911.jpg (accessed April 22, 2021). 

 

Fig. 2. “Newspaper photographs of the Asch Building’s exterior after the Triangle fire,” 1911. Photograph. Kheel Center, Ithaca. Available from: Wikipedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newspaper_photographs_of_the_Asch_Building%27s_exterior_after_the_Triangle_fire_(5279749194).jpg (accessed April 22, 2021).

 

Fig. 3. Bain News Service. “[Horse-drawn fire engines in street, on their way to the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire, New York City],” 1911. Photographic print. Prints and Photographs Depository, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. From: Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002709198/ (accessed April 22, 2021). 

 

Fig. 4. “141 Men and Girls Die in Waist Factory Fire,” 1911. Photograph. The New York Times, New York. Available from: Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Triangle_Windows.jpg (accessed April 22, 2021).

 

Fig. 5. “Interior view of the tenth-floor work area in the Asch Building after the Triangle fire,” 1911. Photograph. Kheel Center, Ithaca. Available from: Wikipedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interior_view_of_the_tenth-floor_work_area_in_the_Asch_Building_after_the_Triangle_fire_(5279682800).jpg (accessed April 22, 2021).

 

THE AFTERMATH

 

Fig. 1. “Mourners line the streets during a funeral procession for victims of the Triangle fire, April 5, 1911,” 1911. Photograph. Kheel Center, Ithaca. Available from: Wikipedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mourners_line_the_streets_during_a_funeral_procession_for_victims_of_the_Triangle_fire,_April_5,_1911_(5279748598).jpg (accessed April 22, 2021).

 

Fig. 2. “People at the 26th Street pier morgue walk by rows of open coffins, attempting to identify victims of the Triangle fire, March 1911,” 1911. Photograph. Kheel Center, Ithaca. Available from: Wikipedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:People_at_the_26th_Street_pier_morgue_walk_by_rows_of_open_coffins,_attempting_to_identify_victims_of_the_Triangle_fire,_March_1911_(5279683888).jpg (accessed April 22, 2021).

 

Fig. 3. Tad Dorgan. “One of a Hundred Murdered (Dorgan),” 1911. Political cartoon. New York Journal, New York. Available from: Wikipedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:One_of_a_Hundred_Murdered_(Dorgan).png (accessed April 22, 2021). 

 

THE UNIONS 

 

Fig. 1. “Mourners from the Ladies Waist and Dressmakers Union Local 25 and the United Hebrew Trades of New York march in the streets after the Triangle fire,” 1911. Photograph. Kheel Center, Ithaca. Available from: Wikipedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mourners_from_the_Ladies_Waist_and_Dressmakers_Union_Local_25_and_the_United_Hebrew_Trades_of_New_York_march_in_the_streets_after_the_Triangle_fire._(5279685974).jpg (accessed April 22, 2021).

 

Fig. 2. “Mourners picket after the Triangle fire. Their signs, hung with black crepe, accuse shop owners of graft, locked doors, and managing workers in fire traps,” 1911. Photograph. Kheel Center, Ithaca. Available from: Wikipedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mourners_picket_after_the_Triangle_fire._Their_signs,_hung_with_black_crepe,_accuse_shop_owners_of_graft,_locked_doors,_and_managing_workers_in_fire_traps._(5279079331).jpg (accessed April 22, 2021).

 

Fig. 3. “Cartoon refers to the Triangle fire and depicts a woman weeping over a grave, and asks the reader "How soon will they be all forgotten?,” 1911. Photograph. Kheel Center, Ithaca. Available from: Wikipedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cartoon_refers_to_the_Triangle_fire_and_depicts_a_woman_weeping_over_a_grave,_and_asks_the_reader_%22How_soon_will_they_be_all_forgotten%3F%22_(5279750848).jpg (accessed April 22, 2021).

 

Fig. 4. “A cartoon referring to the Triangle fire depicts a factory owner, his coat bedecked with the dollar signs, holding a door closed while workers shut inside struggle to escape amid flames and smoke,” 1911. Photograph. Kheel Center, Ithaca. Available from: Wikipedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_cartoon_referring_to_the_Triangle_fire_depicts_a_factory_owner,_his_coat_bedecked_with_the_dollar_signs,_holding_a_door_closed_while_workers_shut_inside_struggle_to_escape_amid_flames_and_smoke._(5279750340).jpg (accessed April 22, 2021).

 

Fig. 5. Agence de presse Meurisse. “Frances Perkins 1936,” 1936. Bibilothèque nationale de France, Paris. Available from: Wikipedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frances_Perkins_1936.jpg (accessed April 22, 2021).

 

Fig. 6. Lewis Wickes Hine. “Reproduction New York State Factory Investigating Commission cannery records re. Haserote controversy. (E.F. Brown).,” 1911. Photographic print. Prints and Photographs Depository, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. From: Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2018675722/ (accessed April 22, 2021).

 

 

Quotation Sources 

 

PRIOR TO 1911

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“The Uprising of the Twenty Thousand.” International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. http://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/primary/songsPlays/UprisingTwentyThousand.html. 

 

THE FIRE

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Skalka, Dora. “Dora Appel Skalka.” Interview by Leon Stein. July 31, 2957. http://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/primary/survivorInterviews/DoraSkalka.html. 

 

Shepherd, William. “Eyewitness at the Triangle.” Milwaukee Journal, March 27, 1911. http://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/primary/testimonials/ootss_WilliamShepherd.html. 

 

THE AFTERMATH 

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Bruere, Martha Besley. “What Is To Be Done?” Life and Labor, May 1911. http://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/primary/testimonials/ootss_MarthaBensleyBruere.html. 

 

THE UNIONS 

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Scheiderman, Rose. “We Have Found You Wanting.” Speech, New York City, April 2, 1911. http://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/primary/testimonials/ootss_RoseSchneiderman.html. 

 

 

Information Sources

 

“Breaking the Gender Barrier: A Woman’s Place Is in Her Union.” Women's Rights | Unions Making History in America, University of Maryland Libraries , www.lib.umd.edu/unions/social/womens-rights. 

 

“Shirtwaist Kings.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, 2011, www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/shirtwaist-kings/. 

 

Stein, Leon. The Triangle Fire. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1962. 

 

“The Triangle Factory Fire.” Remembering The Triangle Factory Fire, Cornell University , trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/index.html. 

 

“Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.” History, A&E Television Networks, 2 Dec. 2009, www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/triangle-shirtwaist-fire.

 

“The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.” Occupational Safety and Health Administration, United States Department of Labor, www.osha.gov/aboutosha/40-years/trianglefactoryfire.  


Von Drehle, Dave. Triangle: The Fire That Changed America. New York City: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003.

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