The Triangle Shirtwaist fire anniversary is today. Here's the NYT front page from the morning after. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/03/26/104859694.pdf …pic.twitter.com/jCA7pr02hG
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Page 5 includes a story (you can read it here https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/03/26/104859701.pdf …) about how the company ignored fire experts' warnings.pic.twitter.com/ihxIYzLvpZ
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I think the final piece of the first day's coverage of the shirtwaist fire was this small editorial. It includes the sentence "the building in which the fire occurred was unquestionably of fireproof construction."pic.twitter.com/9QJMLZeFDS
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Anyway, the David von Drehle book from a while back is a really worthwhile read on the subject.https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004RPY48I/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 …
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There are, of course, a bunch of podcasts that have done very good episodes on Triangle. Here's
@MissedinHistory: https://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/fire-at-the-triangle-shirtwaist-factory.htm … And here's a very very early@BoweryBoys http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2008/04/triangle-factory-fire-of-1911_12.html … and@WNYC's roundup of vintage audiohttps://www.wnyc.org/story/119940-listen-wnyc-archives-triangle-shirtwaist-fire/ …Show this thread -
in 2011, for the 100th anniversary of the Triangle fire, the Times had a lot of anniversary coverage, collected here in all its 2011-blog-era taxonomic glory: https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire/ …
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One of the pieces that sticks with you from that 100th anniversary series is this one, interviewing the living relatives of the fire's victims. “We never forgot her,” one said. “And I don’t want her memory to die.”https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/triangle-fire-clinging-to-scraps-of-memories/ …
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It wasn't until 2011, 100 years after the shirtwaist fire, that the final six victims were officially identified.https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/nyregion/21triangle.html …
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The last survivor of the Triangle fire, Rose Freedman, died in 2001. "The factory relocated within days of the fire, but Rose Rosenfeld never returned. Instead, she went to college."https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/30/magazine/the-lives-they-lived-rose-freedman-b-1893-out-of-the-fire.html …
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One final coda to this thread: a New York Times digital subscription ALSO gets you access to the full New York Times archive, where you can go down historic rabbit holes like this one. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/browser
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Was it, relatively, for the time?
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It was then and now! The building still stands. It was just all the fabric inside that was flammable.
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