Unidentified photographer
1911, 25 March
Triangle Fire

Gelatin silver print
Cornell University, ILR School, Kheel Center
Kheel Center image identifier: 5780Pb39f15f
 
The Asch Building was one of the new "fireproof" buildings, but the blaze on March 25th was not their first. It was also not the only unsafe building where so many young immigrant women worked six or seven days each week.
 
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