#triangle shirtwaist factory

[lazarusemma]

put any clarifying info you want in the tags - what state/country, what grade, etc

#em og post #poll #triangle shirtwaist factory #tagging this as #jumblr #nyc #history

[copper-dragon-in-disguise]

Ik you like talking about this and I’m actually like rly interested so what’s the aids quilt and triangle shirtwaist factory fire?

(It’s in your bio and as you probably know I hate looking stuff up and prefer talking to people-you don’t have to answer if you don’t want to)

*jumps up like the human equivalent of !!! and sprints to the computer to answer this properly with sources and shit* !!!!!!!!!!!

YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE AND THE AIDS QUILT?????????? !!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE GOING TO REGRET THIS SO MUCH ASTER I'M SO EXICTED I'M NOT GOING TO SHUT UP FOR LIKE AN HOUR THIS IS AMAZING

(you have unlocked the Special Interests and now i won't shut up ever. :DDDDDDDDDD)

....well. I wasn't going to put a cut and then it got really, really long, so there's a cut about halfway through for the sake of peoples dashboards.

first up:

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

(tw/cw: intentional endangerment of workers, death, suicide (unplanned/unintentional), graphic depiction of death)

short version: the triangle shirtwaist factory fire was one of the deadliest industrial disasters in US History and, I believe, the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of New York City. It was a key point in labor rights & union movements, and 146 people died, almost all recently immigrated women and girls between the ages of 14-23.

long version: at ~4:40 pm on march 25th, 1911, a fire broke out in a scrap bin under a cutting table in the triangle shirtwaist factory, which occupied the 8th, 9th, and 10th floors of the Asch building in new york city (manhatten, greenwich village specifically).

the factory produced shirtwaists, a popular kind of women's blouse. (it was a sweatshop, which is relevant for future reasons). It was owned by Max Blanck and Issac Harris, who had previously had four (? possibly 3) fires at other factories, and been investigated for them (it was suspected that one or more of those said fires were the result of arson by the owners). the workers were, for the vast majority, recently immigrated jewish & italian women and girls, from age 14 and up, but most were between 14 and 25. The oldest victim was 43. (of the victims whose ages are known). They earned $7-12 a week (approx. $190-326USD in 2020 dollars), or approx. $3.65-6.29 per hour in today's money. at the time of the fire, there were approx. 600 workers in the building.

the asch building was 10 floors in total, and the top 3 were occupied by the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. The doors leading to the staircases were locked, to prevent workers leaving early or taking breaks. There were supposed to be 3 staircases, but there was only two; the city had allowed the owners to build a single fire escape in lieu of the third staircase. this fire escape may have been broken before the fire, and it was certainly broken afterwards. one of the staircases managed to be unlocked, but it became impassible either up or down within 3 minutes of the fire's start.

when the fire flared up, the first alarm was sounded by a passerby outside, who saw smoke coming out the windows at 4:45 pm.

the fire department arrived shortly after, but their ladders could only reach the 7th floor (the fire start on the 8th). some workers excaped via the roof (several years ago I heard a story about a guy who was teaching in the building next door and him and his students saw the people on the roof and were able to help them get over to the building the professor was in and not ontop of the burning one, but I can't find it again to validate it so take that with a grain of salt), and some got into the elevators while they were still working. the elevator operators were able to make 3 trips before the elevators stopped working from the excessive heat (the steel beams holding them bent and made it impossible to attempt).

inside the building, people on the 8th floor were able to warn people on the 10th floor by means of a telephone, but with the staircases locked there was no way to warn those on the 9th floor, and a survivor said (paraphrasing): ''the first warning of the fire arrived at the 9th floor at the same time the fire did''.

146 people died. 123 women and girls, the vast majority between the ages of 14-23, and 23 men and boys (I cannot find a clear age for them). 61 people died from jumping to their death or falling to their death out of the windows of the building. the fire department had nets meant to catch people, but velocity is velocity and the nets did nothing. people jumped out the windows hoping that the nets would catch them or they might survive, or that at least that had a better chance of survival than remaining inside the fire. 20 of these were on the fire escape & attempting to use it when it collapsed, dropping them 100ft to the sidewalk and killing them.

36 people died in the elevator shaft, after it started to break. (they attempted to jump/slide down the cables, and it did not work).

49 people burned to death or suffocated in the smoke.

the entire fire took 18 minutes.

The bodies of the victims were taken to Charities Pier (aka Misery Lane) to be identified. All but 6 were, and those 6 were buried together in the Cementer of the Evergreens in brooklyn (they were later identified by a historian named michael hirsch in 2011, after 4 years of research). they are now all buried together there, underneath a monument to the tragedy.

it caused a surge in the efforts of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, and eventually resulted in the passing of ~38 new york state labor laws.

The AIDs Quilt

(tw/cw: regan (referenced), death (nowhere near as bad as above))

The AIDs quilt is a memorial quilt commemorating those who have died of AIDs (at any point, not just during the AIDs crisis (fuck you ronald regan)), with panels sewn by family members and friends. It was begun in 1987 in San Fransisco by Cleve Jones. It is considered the largest community folk arts project in the world, and consists of nearly 50,000 panels honoring approx. 110,000 people.

Each panel is 6' by 3' (about the size of a standard grave), and four of them are sewn together to make large blocks that are then sewn/tied together. sometimes it goes on display, the most recent time in june 2022.

there is an interactive online version of the quilt, which you can find here.

here it is zoomed out as far as I could get

here are some of the larger blocks of the quilt

and here are some individual panels.

that's mostly all I have to say about it, but its incredible, and my favorite art project of all time.

(i don't have the spoons to add image descriptions to the photos, I am sorry, I will try to do it later when I remember)

#asks #amethyst aster #triangle shirtwaist factory #triangle shirtwaist factory fire #aids quilt #history #fuck you ronald regan. fuck him to fucking hell #(i will take ANY excuse to insult that man)

[leannareneehieber]

Today is the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. This horrific event opens A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN. Read the chapter Andrea Janes and & I wrote about the avoidable carnage. Child Labor & Union-Busting remain despicably timely these days and attacks on labor law are constantly in the news. Never forget. Please share and please advocate against child labor and ANY rollbacks of labor and building safety codes! Labor law saves lives!

More about A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN here. Your support is greatly appreciated.

Please never, ever, take Labor Law for granted.

#triangle fire #tragic #tragedy #labor law #triangle shirtwaist factory #death #workers rights #labor rights #child labor #wages #unions #unionize #building safety #nonfiction #ghosts #haunted history #womens rights #womens history #womens history month #class struggle

[kid2005]

This is Diana Gerjouy she was a union member and worker during the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in which she was tragically killed I started learning about the event and it’s really stuck with me and just breaks my heart

#triangle shirtwaist factory

[begaycommittreason]

the girl version of the roman empire is the triangle shirtwaist factory fire

#idk if this trend has made its round to tumblr yet but #there’s honestly so many but this was the first one to come to mind #roman empire #triangle shirtwaist factory

[dimity-lawn]

On this day in 1911, 146 people lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.

These people were mostly women and many were girls, who had been incredibly brave and faced public violence and police brutality when they had led strikes in order to unionize because they knew how dangerous the working conditions were, but were forced to return to work to support themselves and their families after an impressive strike that did lead to safer conditions to many others in the textile industry.

Minutes before their Saturday Shift would have ended, a fire started on the men's floor below them as a result of an incident with a cigar(ette) and the fiber-dense environment. These men contacted the owners two floors above them, so they and the bosses made it out, but in their worry they forgot to warn the floor in between.

These poor people had less of a chance of escape because in their greed the bosses feared that the women might steal thread, so they locked one of the doors and inspected purses every day. The tiny overcrowded elevators couldn't carry many people, and some either jumped or were pushed down the elevator shaft as the panic spread and the unsafe fire escape fell away from the building as people tried to climb down to safety. By the end of it, bodies were piled high beneath the widows and not all were recognizable.

This tragedy could have been avoided, but greed got in the way. Building codes have changed in America to prevent this from happening again, but even today people working in the fashion industry are exploited around the world. Please, remember those who died and consider why we still must change things for the better today.

#thought(s) from yours truly #dress history #history #anniversary #triangle shirtwaist factory #rest in peace #fashion industry

[transpondster]

As in past years, volunteers have participated in the chalking project (organized by Street Pictures), writing the names and ages of the victims — mostly young women —  in front of the buildings where they lived on the Lower East Side. The reader photos are from St. Mark's Place (above) and 11th Street...

#new york city #nyc #east village #ev grieve #triangle shirtwaist factory

[dietcoke-enthusiast]

calling the Girls ‼️‼️

you know how boys have a WW2 or Roman Empire fetish, and girls have a fetish for either the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory or the Titanic?

WHAT is our equivalent for men and planes/trains. I cannot think of anything we know everything about in the way they know about a god damned engine

#girls #triangle shirtwaist factory #roman empire #ww2 history #trains #planes #titanic

[measuresderepo]

Maybe I’ll give my blog a lil break from lotrm

UH! 146 point flame playlist!

#it’s basically a longing playlist #I’m in a one act so just #be quiet #it’s giving me the feels #146 point flame #triangle fire #triangle shirtwaist factory #Vencenza #Spotify

[the-technicolor-yawn]

my history teacher mentioned the triangle shirtwaist factory fire in class today and i made the soyjak face like a reflex this is awful

#history memes #triangle shirtwaist factory #soyjak #dissapointment #disappointment in myself #historical events

[westcuntrycoastlvr85]

threw up outside of skulls last night and haven’t eaten since…. stay thin

#elon musk #cuntboy #cucklife #hurricane hillary #kate moss #triangle shirtwaist factory #stayskinny #fat piggy #drink water #chloe ting #coronación #vampire diaries #ruby franke #longchamp

[sun-moon-and-stars4]

my roman empire? the triangle shirtwaist factory fire of 1911

#triangle shirtwaist factory #roman empire

[screenshot-thoughts]

“Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, Greenwich Village, New York, 1911, Fire.”

#ideas #my screenshots #screenshot #thoughts #life #Greenwich village #nyc #fire #tragedy #New York #1911 #history #change #triangle shirtwaist factory

[fabricdragondesigns]

A Brief History of: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 1911 (Short Doc...

in my opinion this is one of the VERY best short documentaries on the #TriangleShirtwaistFactory there are excellent longer ones, but for a short documentary this is... one of the best.

#youtube #today in history #Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

[leannareneehieber]

(Pictured: Carnations laid in honor of the dead at the sidewalk of NYU's Brown Building. Photo by Leanna Renee Hieber)

On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the top floors of the Asch Building. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire took the lives of 146 people, most of them women and girls. As a NYC tour guide of over 15yrs, I speak about this site with vehemence. Never forget the importance of modern labor laws and the lives lost before we gained these rights. Andrea Janes and I wrote about this site, and its importance in the capacity of residual haunting, in our book A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN. Our chapter on the fire, Industrial Monsters, is up on the Boroughs of the Dead blog: https://boroughsofthedead.com/industrial-monsters-ghosts-of-the-triangle-shirtwaist-factory/

Please support union workers and legislation aimed at shoring up worker protections. Honor the dead.

#nychistory #a haunted history of invisible women #on this date #labor history #trianglefire #triangle shirtwaist factory fire #factory #haunting #hauntedhistory #tour guide #new york history #labor law #labor rights #unionize