Thud, dead!

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Triangle Fire

For endless hours police officers held lanterns to light the bodies while crowds filed past victims laid out in numbered rough-wood coffins. As the dead were identified, the coffin was closed and moved aside for the family to claim.
Photographer: Brown Brothers, 1911

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In the April 5th funeral procession for the seven unidentified fire victims, members of the United Hebrew Trades of New York and the Ladies Waist and Dressmakers Union Local 25, the local that organized Triangle Waist Company workers, carry banners proclaiming ?We Mourn Our Loss.?
Photographer: unknown, April 5, 1911


Mourners carry a bunting-draped banner in the pouring rain during the six hour procession April 5, 1911 to honor victims of the Triangle fire.
Photographer: New York Tribune, April 5, 1911


While this flower-laden carriage was pulled through crowded streets in silent funeral procession for the unidentified victims of the fire, the remains of the seven unclaimed victims were quietly taken from the morgue and buried in the City?s Evergreens Cemetery plot. Private burial rites were conducted for Jewish, Catholic, and Episcopal faiths.
Photographer: unknown, April 5, 1911


Rain on April 5th did not diminish the numbers drawn to honor the fire?s victims and to pay their respects to the 7 still-unidentified. The silent procession of 100,000 mourners marched past 300,000 others who bore witness to the sacrifices that had been made and confirmed their resolve to see justice served.
Photographer: unknown, April 5, 1911


Triangle Fire victim Daisy Lopez Fitze [Fitzi] standing far right with a group of young women and one man near the shore.
Photographer: unknown, ca. 1910


Marching through cold rain and mud, protesters hoped to rally support. Signs call for fire drills in every shop, closed shops with union contracts, an end to political graft and to days spent working in fire traps.
Photographer: unknown, 1911


?Investigators on roof of Asch Building ? From left to right Coroner Holzhauser, J. R. Rubins, and C. F. Bostwick.?
Photographer: unknown, 1911


?Coroner and jury questioning employees.? Hand tinted lantern slide.
Photographer: unknown, 1911


?Sarah Cammestine swore doors were all locked.? Sarah Cammestine escaped the burning Asch Building by jumping on top of an elevator cage. Hand tinted lantern slide.
Photographer: unknown, 1911


Joseph Zito Elevator Boy. Performed heroic work.? Joseph Zito made repeated trips into the Asch Building until the flames shooting into the elevator shaft on the eighth floor kept him from raising the open-mesh car through it one more time. Hand tinted lantern slide.
Photographer: unknown, 1911

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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire - 1911

REPORTS
Note to researchers: This exhibit presents mainly primary documents, with a selection of secondary documents. If you are new to research of this type, please review the difference between primary sources and secondary sources under Tips for Students.
Report of Joint Relief Committee, January 15, 1913
Preliminary Report of the Factory Investigating Commission, 1912
New York (State) Factory Investigating Commission (excerpts)
Report to the Legislature of the State of New York by the New York State Factory Investigating Commission (pp. 13-20)
Creation of Commission
Organization of Commission
Scope of Investigation
Importance of Investigation
The Fire Hazard in Factory Buildings (pp. 28-34)
Recommendations of the Commission (pp. 38-45)
Diagram of the Ninth Floor of the Asch Building (illustration) (p. 46)
Results from the Preliminary Report of the New York (State) Factory Investigating Commission (pp. 128-130)
Neglect of the Human Factor
"Ignorance of the Number and of the Location of Industrial Establishments"
Lack of Standards
Notes on Some Trades in Which Women are Employees, "Clothing (Women's waists)" (pp. 277-278)
Testimony of Edward F. Croker, Fire Chief (pp.14-21, 35-36, 39-40)
The Triangle Fire, the Asch Building, and who was responsible
Testimony of G.I. Harmon, Inspector, Labor Department (p. 242-249)
Inspection of Asch Building prior to the Triangle Fire
Testimony of William L. Beers, Fire Marshal, City of New York (p. 571, 580-82)
Interrogated about the Asch Building
Fourth Report of the Factory Investigating Commission, 1915.
Includes summary of work of the commission and laws passed as a result of the commission's work.

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