Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
- Title:
- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Labor and Work
- Photographer:
- Unknown
- Creation Date:
- 1911 (negative)
ca. 1959 (print)
- ID Number:
- 5780-087pb01f5j
- Collection Number:
- 5780-087 P
- File Name:
- 5780-087pb01f5j600c.jpg
- Work Type:
- photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints
- Subject:
- Triangle factory fire
Textile Industry
labor history
deadly fires - Description:
- An officer stands at the Asch Building's 9th floor window after the Triangle fire. Sewing machines, drive shafts, and other wreckage of the Triangle factory fire are piled in the center of the blaze-scoured room. This is a reproduction on an image from 1911 for the ILGWU's 50th Anniversary exhibit on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
- Cite As:
- ILGWU Leon Stein Photographs #5780/087 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University
- Archival Collection:
- ILGWU Leon Stein Photographs, 1909-1911
- Box:
- 1
- Folder:
- 5
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The copyright status and copyright owners of most of the images in the Mellon Teaching Sets Collection are unknown. Whenever possible, information on current rights owners is included with the image. Digitization took place at varied times from items held at The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives in service of a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Cornell is providing access to low-resolution, non-downloadable versions of the materials as a digital aggregate under an assertion of fair use for non-commercial research and educational use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. For more information about these volumes, please contact The Kheel Center at kheelref@cornell.edu. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.