Firefighters Saluting at 50th Anniversary Commemoration
Firefighters Saluting at 50th AnniversaryThe New York City Fire Department has played an active role in the commemoration and memorialization of the Triangle Fire. In 1911, the ladders attached to the...
View ArticleThe Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time was a 1994 rally held to commemorate the fire through advocacy pushing for worldwide occupational safety by drawing a direct connection between 1911 and today. The flyer is so...
View ArticleThe Fateful Triangle
This is a dream I had while walking past the Brown/Asch Building. I saw the women in their long skirts, falling like clouds. I saw the triangle-greed, fear, silence that sealed their fate and ours-to...
View ArticleMy grandmother, witness Emeilia Cuneo Parentini
My Grandmother Emeilia (Mildred) Cuneo Parentini was born in 1894 and died in 1995. She lived on East Eighth street and she witnessed the fire standing on a bench across from the building. It haunted...
View ArticleMy great-grandmother, witness, Josephine/Giuseppina Coccaro
I’m an Italian-Jewish New Yorker, from a family of New Yorkers. 6 months into our project to create this Open Archive, my great-uncle Richard told me what Momma, my great-grandmother Josephine, saw. In...
View Article“Shirt” by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky
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View Article“My Father’s Hands” by Herbert J. Kramer
This is a short piece written by my father, Herbert J. Kramer, about his father, Charles P. Kramer, who was a first, if not the first, responder to the fire, and who rescued women from the roof and...
View ArticleTheir Final Walk Home: Haiku
I was one of the 146 marchers in "Their Final Walk Home" on March 27, 2011. I represented Ida Pearl, one of the Triangle Fire victims. She lived at 355 East 4th Street in the Lower East Side (then...
View ArticleSamuel Barfield-Triangle Fire Hero
These are articles and links about Samuel Barfield, NYU employee at the time of the Triangle Fire. As per the articles ,(the NY Times, Washington Afro-American 10/1954) written several years after the...
View ArticleImmigrant Girls (1911 Triangle Fire)
Lyrics : They said the building was fireproof So on the eighth and ninth floors Where Immigrant Girls sewed garments They locked the exit doors When the fire broke out that day There was nowhere else...
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