Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and Migrant Workers

Early to Mid-1900s

Introduction
Investigations
Create Your Own Story Activity
Social Media Editor
Outcomes

Primary Source Interactives

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Using Eyewitness Accounts

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Photos and Illustrations

Opposing Viewpoints On Migrant Workers

How News Presents Conflicting Views

California Grape Strike

Power of the Press

The New-York Tribune cover story contains numerous accounts by survivors and officials describing the horrors at the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911. Fire Chief Edward Croker blamed the lack of fire escapes and sprinklers and the locked doors for the high casualty count.

Introduction Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Photographs and Political Cartoons Edward R. Murrow’s Harvest of the Poor Investigation Caesar Chavez and the Grape Strike Create Your Own Story Social Media Editor Outcomes

Directions

Use the magnifier to take a close look at the front page of the New-York Tribune article and answer the questions in the boxes below.

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Source: New-York Tribune. New York, N.Y. March 26, 1911. Library of Congress

Source: New-York Tribune. 26 March 1911. Library of Congress

Source: New-York Tribune. March 26, 1911. Library of Congress

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