Burned Beyond Recognition The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire March 25, 1911

By Robert Grey Reynolds Jr.

Release : 2017-02-18

Genre : Politics & Current Events, Books, Business & Personal Finance, Economics

Kind : ebook

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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire happened on a Saturday inside the Asch Building in what is now Greenwich Village. Multiple tenants occupied the twelve floors of the building adjacent to Washington Place and Green Street. It was about 4:30 p.m. when a blaze shot up from beneath one of the cutting tables. The sewing machines occupied the majority of the work space. A man employed as a cutter may have carelessly discarded a match used to light a cigarette. The bins underneath the tables were filled with trimmings of lawn, i.e. cotton fabric from which the shirtwaists, or blouses, were made.

Burned Beyond Recognition The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire March 25, 1911

By Robert Grey Reynolds Jr.

Release : 2017-02-18

Genre : Politics & Current Events, Books, Business & Personal Finance, Economics

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire happened on a Saturday inside the Asch Building in what is now Greenwich Village. Multiple tenants occupied the twelve floors of the building adjacent to Washington Place and Green Street. It was about 4:30 p.m. when a blaze shot up from beneath one of the cutting tables. The sewing machines occupied the majority of the work space. A man employed as a cutter may have carelessly discarded a match used to light a cigarette. The bins underneath the tables were filled with trimmings of lawn, i.e. cotton fabric from which the shirtwaists, or blouses, were made.

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