#OnThisDay in 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City caught fire and 146 workers died, mostly women and immigrants. This weekend on "Reel America" watch "With These Hands" (1950) - an International Ladies Garment Workers Union film which was nominated for a documentary Academy Award and includes a dramatization of the industrial disaster. https://www.c-span.org/video/?509984-1/with-hands | American History TV

On April 5, 1911, 400,000 people lined the sidewalks of New York City to pay tribute to the unidentified victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. | American Experience | PBS

On March 25, 1911, a fire tore through the upper floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City. Within minutes, flames and smoke trapped workers on the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors. Exit doors had been locked. Fire ladders reached only partway up the building. One hundred forty-six people—most of them young immigrant women—died in what remains one of the deadliest industrial disasters in U.S. history. Historical records confirm that child labor was common in early 20th-century ga