PRIMARY SOURCES, TRAGEDY AS A TURNING POIIN FOR WORKERS RIGHTS: THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE

Molly Brambil, Megan Healy and Caitlin Yabroudy Senior Group Website Division

-"100 Years Ago: The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire." History.com. A&E Television Networks, 24 Mar. 2011. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This website provided us with a video that helped us understand with visuals and the truth behind the fire. The historians in the video provided helpful information in our research. -"146 LIVES LOST!" Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This article provided us with the names of all of the 146 victims of the fire. -Ahmed, Farid. CNN. Cable News Network, 25 Nov. 2012. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This article helped to provide us with todays new, and helped us with our rebuttal from our original thesis. -Burke, Jason. The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 27 Nov. 2012. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This article helped to provide us with todays new, and helped us with our rebuttal from our original thesis. -Excerpts from Trial Testimony in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial. N.p., n.d. Web. <http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/triangle/triangletest1.html>. This website provided us with the various laws the company broke, and how they got around and were able to violate them. -Hasan, Syed Shoaib. "Death Toll from Karachi Factory Fire Soars." BBC News. BBC, 09 Dec. 2012. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This article helped to provide us with todays new, and helped us with our rebuttal from our original thesis. -Lahore, Pakistan., Zia Ur-rehman, Declan Walsh And Salman Masood; Waqar Gillani Contributed Reporting From. The New York Times. The New York Times, 13 Sept. 2012. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This article helped to provide us with todays new, and helped us with our rebuttal from our original thesis. -"Legislative Reform at State and Local Level." Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Jan. 2013. This article helped show the different laws that were passed after the fire happened. -"New York State Department of Labor." Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Jan. 2013. This article provided us with the New York Laws passed regarding labor rights.

-"NEWSPAPER & MAGAZINE ARTICLES: 141 Men and Girls Die in Waist Factory Fire; Trapped High Up in Washington Place Building; Street Strewn with Bodies; Piles of Dead Inside." Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This newspaper article described the Triangle Fire and what had happened on March 11th. -"NEWSPAPER & MAGAZINE ARTICLES:147 Dead, Nobody Guilty." Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This newspaper article explained the Triangle Fire and asked who was guilty for it. This article helped explain how no one was guilty, and that everyone blamed some one else. No one could take the blame for this huge disaster. -"NEWSPAPER & MAGAZINE ARTICLES:Blame Shifted On All Sides For Fire Horror." Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This newspaper article further explained how the Triangle Fire started and why it happened. -"NEWSPAPER & MAGAZINE ARTICLES:Echoes from the Triangle Fire. Dr. Price Suggests Co-operation Between the Waist Makers' Union and the Board of Sanitary Control."Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This newspaper helped illustrate the workplace violations that the owners made, and how they got away with the unsafe conditions. -"NEWSPAPER & MAGAZINE ARTICLES:Ladies' Garment Worker, April 1911." Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This newspaper article helped give the perspective of the workers from the Triangle, and the outrage they were left with after the fire had happened. -"NEWSPAPER & MAGAZINE ARTICLES:New York Fire Kills 148: Girl Victims Leap to Death from Factory." Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This article was helpful in understanding the circumstances the young workers were faced with; to burn to death or to jump to their death. This article also gave a summary on the events that happened on March 26, 1911. -"NEWSPAPER & MAGAZINE ARTICLES:Stories of Survivors. And Witnesses and Rescuers Outside Tell What They Saw." Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. We used these various stories of the survivors as primary sources to help the viewers of our website understand how they dealt and lived with this fire behind them. These sources were helpful in developing the effects of the Triangle and how life continued on. -"New-York Tribune., March 26, 1911, Image 1About New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924." Editorial. New York Tribute n.d.: n. pag. News about Chronicling America RSS. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This newspaper article was a helpful primary source considering it was a real

newspaper made the day after the fire happened, and it gave a summary of the events that had occurred. -New-York Tribune., March 26, 1911, Page 3, Image 47About New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924 (n.d.): n. pag. News about Chronicling America RSS. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This newspaper article was a helpful primary source considering it was a real newspaper made the day after the fire happened, and it gave a summary of the events that had occurred. -New-York Tribune., March 26, 1911, Page 8, Image 52About New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924 (n.d.): n. pag. News about Chronicling America RSS. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This newspaper article was a helpful primary source considering it was a real newspaper made the day after the fire happened, and it gave a summary of the events that had occurred. -"PHOTOS & ILLUSTRATIONS:Editorial Cartoons." Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. We used the various political cartoons to help show the effects of the media and the responses of the public to the fire. -"PHOTOS & ILLUSTRATIONS:Lantern Slides." Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. We used this set of pictures to get in color photographs of the owners of the company and the mourners of the victims as well. -"PHOTOS & ILLUSTRATIONS:Mourning & Protest, Victims & Survivors." Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. We used this set of pictures to help get the visuals of the protesting, and morgues set up for the Triangle victims. They helped bring the past into life to help us understand the severity of the fire. -"PHOTOS & ILLUSTRATIONS:Reporting, Investigation, and Trial." Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. We used this set of pictures to gain insight from outsiders on the investigation and to help answer the questions about the trial. -"PHOTOS & ILLUSTRATIONS:Shirtwaist Strike and Other Strikes." Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. We used this set of pictures quite often to help get images of the women striking, before the fire even occurred. -"PHOTOS & ILLUSTRATIONS:Triangle Fire." Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. We used this set of pictures to help get a feel for what the fire was actually like

when the building was on fire. We also found many pictures showing the ashes of inside, and the fire escapes which proved to be useless. -"PHOTOS & ILLUSTRATIONS:Workers and Working Conditions." Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. We used this set of pictures to help get a sense of what working in the Triangle was like before the fire. The pictures show cramped and crowded areas packed with women and scraps of clothing. -"SONGS & PLAYS:Ballad of the Triangle Fire." Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This source was helpful by providing us with a direct play that was created due to the fire. -"SONGS & PLAYS:My Little Shirtwaist Fire." Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This source was helpful by providing us with songs that were created due to the fire. -"SURVIVOR ORAL HISTORIES:Pauline Pepe." Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This recording was helpful because it allowed us to hear the voice and input of an actual survivor from the Triangle FIre. -"TESTIMONIALS: Among the Poor Girls By Wirt Sikes." Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This testimonial was helpful by providing us evidence of the poor and horrible conditions that the workers faced every day. -"TESTIMONIALS: Life in the Shop By Clara Lemlich." Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This testimonial was helpful by providing us evidence of the poor and horrible conditions that the workers faced every day. -"TESTIMONIALS: My First Job - Rose Cohen." Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This testimonial was helpful by providing us evidence of the poor and horrible conditions that the workers faced every day. -"TESTIMONIALS:Fire." Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This testimonial was helpful in gaining knowledge about what had happened on March 26, 1911. -"TIMELINE OF EVENTS." Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This timeline was helpful because it laid out in order the events of the workers, from their strike to the fire.

-"TRANSCRIPT OF CRIMINAL TRIAL." Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This transcript was useful because it provided us with Blanck and Harris' trial and the outcome of the trial itself. -"What Went Wrong?" Cornell University. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2013. This article was helpful in discovering what actually went wrong, and why the fire happened in the first place.