After a decade, the two men entered a partnership that would propel their careers and earn them the nickname of New York's "Shirtwaist Kings." Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, Courtesy: Cornell Kheel ...

A button-down blouse, the functional shirtwaist was valued for its ready-to-wear, workplace appeal and its simple design, originally modeled on menswear shirts. It could be worn jacketless and ...

The fire spread quickly. On that Saturday in March of 1911, black smoke billowed out of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory near Washington Square Park in New York City. The panicked workers inside, many ...

All bodies recovered from Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire NEW YORK, March 26, 1911 (UP) - One hundred and forty one bodies had been taken to the morgue at 12:45 this morning and there had been seven ...

Director Jill Paopao said this was a production she did 14 years ago, when she was fairly new to the school, noting there is ...

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Emotionally devastated after helping investigate the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that killed scores of women and girls in 1911, he crusaded to create laws for safer working conditions.

It supported unions and the downtrodden following events such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, in which 146 workers (mostly women) died in a horrible fire because their employer ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A statewide coalition of advocacy, labor, and faith groups has pushed for lawmakers to pass more ...

All bodies recovered from Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire NEW YORK, March 26, 1911 (UP) - One hundred and forty one bodies had been taken to the morgue at 12:45 this morning and there had been seven ...