100th Anniversary Of The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
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<p>The burned out remains of the Triangle Waist Factory</p>
<p>Photograph of firefighters putting out the fire at 29 Washington Place.</p>
<p>An image from Newspaperarchive.com shows a detail from the front page of the San Antonio Light newspaper edition of Sunday, March 26, 1911, with headlines the day after the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in New York. </p>
<p>Family members gather to identify dead victims.</p>
<p>A 1911 photograph of labor union members gather to protest and mourn the loss of life in the March 25, 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York.</p>
<p>Triangle Shirtwaist fire survivor Annie Sprinsock, with her infant son Morton Boisen in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1917; Nevitt said of the workers, "They were panic-stricken. It was hellacious, and they ran for their lives the best they could." </p>
<p>At 2nd Avenue and 2nd Street in Manhattan, someone points out where victims once lived.</p>