The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: March 25, 1911

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: March 25, 1911 <http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/ trianglefire/>. Kheel Center for LaborManagement Documentation and Archives at Cornell University in cooperation with UNITE! (Union of Needle Trades, Industrial and Textile Employees); ed. by Hope Nisly and Patricia Sione. Last site update April 21, 2000. Reviewed Dec. 20, 2000-Jan. 5, 2001.

According to its introduction, this Web site was created in response to requests for information on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire from secondary school students. It serves this audience with a comprehensive but manageable selection of primary documents from a much larger collection. Thirteen newspaper and magazine articles, eight political cartoons, ten photographs, three oral histories, eleven firstperson narratives from Leon Stein's anthology Out of the Sweatshop (1977), several investigation documents, trial testimonies, letters, a song, a radio play, and a recent photo essay on sweatshops past and present are accompanied by key secondary sources (passages from Stein's The Triangle Fire, 1962, frame the narrative, and a recently compiled list of the fire's victims...