Special Features
- Primary Resources: New York Times Coverage of the Fire
- Biography: Anne Morgan
- General Article: What is a Shirtwaist?
- Photo Gallery: The Price of Fashion (1910)
- Further Reading: Related Books and Websites
- Primary Resources: Police Mishandle Girl Strike-Pickets
It was the deadliest workplace accident in New York City’s history. A dropped match on the 8th floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sparked a fire that killed over a hundred innocent people trapped inside. The private industry of the American factory would never be the same.
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Three years ago, my knowledge of my paternal grandmother, born Annie Sprinsock, was at best sketchy. A Russian-Jewish immigrant to New York City, she lived a tragically truncated life marked by recurrent bouts of melancholia until her death at the young age of 34 in 1929. My father, deeply pained by her untimely death, rarely spoke of her to my brother and me when we were children -- except to say that she had been at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory on the day of the infamous fire.
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