March 25, 1911 started off like any other Saturday at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. It was the final day of the six-day standard work week in the New York City sweatshops where mentally exhausting ...

Shirtwaist made by Fisk, Clark & Flagg, about 1910. Shirtwaists, tailored blouses of the 1890s and early 1900s, became especially popular with working-class women because, unlike a full dress, they ...

108 years ago, 146 workers were killed — some as young as 13 — in a horrific factory fire that help change American economic history. The dead included my Great Aunt Fannie. Fire hoses spray water on ...

A century ago this week, in Lower Manhattan, a young social worker named Frances Perkins was having tea at the Greenwich Village townhouse of her friend, the socialite Margaret Morgan Norrie. They ...

Scattered among 16 cemeteries around New York they came to rest, the 146 people whose lives were violently cut short 100 years ago in one of the nation’s worst industrial disasters — the Triangle ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The fire caused the deaths of 146 workers, primarily women and girls, and led ...

This week, a history lesson. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, a deadly factory fire that happened more than a century ago galvanized a young social worker named Frances Perkins. Perkins, who ...