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Includes 8x10 negatives of strikers voting with hands raised and Samuel Gompers addressing striking Shirtwaist Makers at Cooper Union; strikers marching to City Hall; selling The Call

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During the fire, the building and the victims. Includes the Asch Building (cropped) with crowds in the streets below; print negative fighting the fire with people and a (fire?) wagon in the street; burned bodies on the Green St. sidewalk; fire fighter in burned out building; identifying the victims at the morgue; negative print of the street with fire hoses; negative print of a small group

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Mourning and protests. Includes street protest, young women and men with signs; neg. print street gathering large sign in Hebrew (modified from original) 2 small clusters of mourners following horse drawn hearse; woman putting flowers on memorial marker for “Annie” [flopped];

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Newspaper images and drawings. Includes clipping “250,000 see 80,000 march in rain to honor fire dead” and “punish workers for being in procession”; “the mourning procession”; “who is responsible” line drawing; street image after the fire; 8 x 10” negs. of “the mourning procession”; 9th floor burned door latch and handle with the bolt shot, line drawing of the triangle “rent, profit, interest” from the NY Call; “Silent parade of 50,000”.

Scope and Contents Anniversary memorial and monuments. Includes fenced in plot with the sign “in memory of the young men and women who perished in the fire at the Triangle Waist Company’s shop, Asch Building, NY, March 25, 1911 [?] Erected November 1911 by their sisters and brothers, members of the Ladies Waist and Dressmakers Union Local No. 25.”; people on podium for anniversary memorial, April 1971; large memorial marker for the fire victims, with writing on photo; print and 8 x 10 neg. of fire survivor and...

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Miscellaneous. Includes photos of a check for $250.00 by Harris and Blanck for advertising in the NY Call, rejected by the publishers; photo of people gathered with Triangle owners Blank and Harris.

Scope and Contents Includes women and men standing in unknown building; original silver gelatin portrait of two young women (twins?) in cabinet card frame; 8 x 10 negs. of Lewis Hine photo of a woman walking with a cloth bundle on her head, a street scene with signs for laundry, ice cream parlor, children and adults, from late 1890’s early 1900’s; a fire fighter lowering a body in the Monarch Underwear Corp, fire, March 19, 1958; homework shop scene with men and women hand sewing, (girl with scissors in...

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Leon Stein speaking with a survivor of the fire; 50th anniversary memorial gathering, March 25th, 1961; modern fire ladder at the corner of the Asch building; Leon Stein looking out an NYU classroom window.

Scope and Contents Negative and print set including Women’s Trade Union League of New York parade, [ca. 1913?]; WTUL (Women’s Trade Union League) of NY women in pointed hats holding Banner with “The 8 hour Day” ca. 1910; Women in horse drawn wagon with bunting decoration and banner “Italian Vanguard” ca 1910; Horse-drawn wagon carrying women and male driver, platform decorated with signs and fabric, ca. 1910; Shop with English and Yiddish sign in the window “help the garment workers in their fight for bread...