At the same time, building fire codes were not up to standard, especially at the Asche building. The three floors in which Triangle operated were tightly packed with workers and machinery.

Buy It Today:Triangle: The Fire That Changed America This article ... New York's largest manufacturer of women's blouses. Occupying the top three floors of a building at the corner of Washington ...

One of the most infamous tragedies in American manufacturing history is the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire of 1911. You may recall the story ... occupying about 27,000 square feet on three floors in ...

worked as seamstresses for $3 per week or less. On March 25, 1911, at the end of a six-day, 52-hour workweek, a fire broke out on the eighth floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory building near ...

But not the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire ... the blaze spread quickly through the top three floors. Hundreds of onlookers converged as horse-drawn fire engines thundered from every ...

1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York. (AP Photo/National Archives, File) California was the national strike hub with three of the year’s biggest strikes: SAG-AFTRA, Kaiser ...