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Futile escape route Chronicling the horror Rose Rosenfeld Freedman, as a young woman, sits in a carved wooden chair wearing a patterned dress and looking at the camera in an early 20th-century black and white portrait. Mourning the dead Rows of shirt-shaped fabric cutouts hang in front of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory building in New York at the Triangle Fire Memorial dedication, with a fire truck ladder extended above.
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How a preventable tragedy changed workplace safety in the United States
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Futile escape route
The lone fire escape from the building that housed the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory...
© Everett Collection Historical/Alamy
Chronicling the horror
The front page of the March 26, 2011, edition of the New York Tribune bearing...
Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers site
The last survivor
Rose Rosenfeld, who escaped the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in 1911, shown circa...
Cornell University Library, Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives (5780pb39f19o)
Mourning the dead
Several hundred thousand New Yorkers lining the streets for the funeral procession...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Remembering
Fabric shirtwaists waving in the breeze in front of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory...
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