NEAR CLOSING TIME ON MARCH 25, 1911, a fire broke out at the Triangle Waist Factory in New York City.
Within 18 minutes, 146 people were dead as a result
of the fire.
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Dora Maisler was a sample maker on the eighth floor of the Asch Building survivor of the Triangle Waist Company fire, March 25, 1911. She is interviewed by Sigmund…
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Excerpt from a lecture given 30 September 1964, by Frances Perkins at Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Transcript available here:…
Lecture by Frances Perkins triangle fire
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Max Hochfield, was a sewing machine operator who worked on the 9th floor of the Asch Building and was a survivor of the March 25, 1911 Triangle Waist Company fire that…
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Pauline Pepe was a machine operator who did tucking for the Triangle Waist Company. She worked on the eighth floor of the Asch Building, and was a survivor of the…
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