Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date	March 25, 1911
Location	New York • New York City • United States

Photos

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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Topics

United States health and safety law reform

Key People

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Josephine Clara Goldmark

American labor leader

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