The Triangle Fire: A Brief History with Documents by Jo Ann E. Argersinger

The Triangle Fire: A Brief History with Documents

Jo Ann E. Argersinger

176 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction historical history informative slow-paced

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In 1911, a fire at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City claimed the lives of 146 workers, mainly young immigrant women, who either leaped to their deaths or were trapped in the blaze by locked doors and inadequate fire escapes. The tragedy ...

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