Triangle Factory Fire Exhibit

This web exhibit presents original documents and secondary sources on the Triangle Fire, held by the Cornell University Library. They are housed in the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections also contributed to the exhibit. The bulk of the primary sources were drawn from the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union Archives which, along with the records of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, form the basis for the archives of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE!) which reside at Cornell.

This site includes selected information on a terrible and unnecessary tragedy involving the death of many young working women in a New York City sweatshop at the beginning of the 20th century and the resulting investigations and reforms. You will find original documents, oral histories, and photographs. You can hear and read first-hand accounts by survivors and others that will provide a glimpse into the lives of workers and a sense of the horrors of a factory fire that claimed the lives of 146 young workers.

Click URL to view — http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/

Archival materials, Cornell University, Factories, Fires, Industrial relations, International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Labor movement, New York City, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Newspaper articles, Photographs, Social history, Songs, Sweatshops, Textile workers, Triangle Shirtwaist Company, Union of Needlework Industrial and Textile Employees, Women

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