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Two men working amid flying sparks, used as the cover for a Midvale Company "Bulletin" December 1947
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Newspaper photographs of the Asch Building's exterior after the Triangle fire
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Young boy picking cotton
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Shop scene with women sewing and men fitting a dress on a form
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Exterior of the Asch Building after the Triangle Waist Company fire includes the company sign on the building corner.
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

An African American man pressing garments in a shop
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

"Tailors working at pressing with ordinary gas irons - Fire pails used for dampening clothes." Two men pressing garments at a long wooden workbench with racks of finished clothing nearby
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Women sewing in a garment factory with election signs hanging overhead. One sign reads: "Elect Underwood Governer."
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Family of cotton pickers moving up a row
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

An African American man presses a garment.
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Elroe Kimbrell and Sylvia Lawrence picking cotton
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

May day Rally
by dying regime

Four black adults and one child picking cotton
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

An African American man cuts fabric in a large garment shop with a power cutter.
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Young Black girls pick cotton into long sacks
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

May day Rally
by dying regime

Portrait of two young women believed to have died in the Triangle fire.
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Midvale Company mechanic Larson, medium grinding on Noton Machine roll for Thomas Steel, July 1932
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Men and women sew on machines in a large garment shop.
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Drawing of a family performing industrial homework, living in squalid conditions. Published in Harpers Weekly, July 28, 1883
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

May day Rally
by dying regime

Cartoon "Inspector of Buildings" refers to the Triangle fire and depicts a skeleton dressed as a building inspector. Sign reads "Record fire for New York, 145 lives lost!!!! Guilding fire proof. Only fire escape collapsed. Inspector."
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

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Men picket in the South Bronx and carry signs in Spanish reading "Basta Ya" [Enough! We clothe the world and they pay us with long hours, hunger, occupational illness, no dignity, no pension, no health care, etc.].
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Black workers pick cotton
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Young women and men pose in a factory. There is a sign in Yiddish and one in English that reads, "Smoking Prohibited . . ."
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

May day Rally
by dying regime

May day Rally
by dying regime

Drawing depicting women jumping from the burning Asch Building during the Triangle fire; border of dollar signs makes editorial statement as to the cause.
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

May day Rally
by dying regime

Crowds fill the street and watch as the Asch Building, location of the Triangle Waist Company, burns, March 25, 1911
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Ben and Myrtle Lawrence and others at a WPA job site
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Priscilla Robertson tries her hand at cotton picking
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Elroe Kimbrell picking cotton
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Picketers in front of Superior Products factory in Puerto Rico demand dignified treatment, drinking water, and a fair minimum wage.
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Midvale Company operators opening 50 ton ladle to pour molten steel, 1930
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

May day Rally
by dying regime

The Triangle Waist Company fire escape, weakened by the heat of the fire, leads from upper floors of the Asch Building
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Magnet #3 in open hearth stock yard. Midvale Company employee Henry Johnson in railroad car, main office in background, April 8, 1954
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Four Midvale Company employees working tongs in Smith Shop, August 1932
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Long tables of mostly women sewing in a garment shop
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

May day Rally
by dying regime

WPA workers shoveling plant material
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Dressmakers on strike for better conditions and higher pay line the garment center district with a fleet of sound trucks, calling workers out of shops, March 15, 1958.
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Coroner Holzhauser, and Assistant District Attorneys J. Robert Rubin and Charles Bostwick investigate the roof of the Asch Building in order to prepare their prosecution of Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, Triangle Waist Company owners after the Triangle fire
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Cleaning in foundry. Photo taken for National Safety Council and Midvale Company Safety Department, 1949
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Midvale Company employees operating machines that pour moulten metal into pots, April 13, 1945
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Police officers and fire fighters check for signs of life and collect personal items from victims of the Triangle fire.
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Workers on W. 35th St. between 7th and 8th Ave., the area known as China Town, strike for improved conditions, 1940. One sign suggests Franklin D. Roosevelt would say "End Starvation Wages" and Berger - Alenick would reply "Not in Our Sweat Shops"
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Third cast steel pour at Midvale Company, April 13, 1928
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A young boy, Elroe Lawrence, picks cotton
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Cartoon refers to the Triangle fire and depicts a woman weeping over a grave, and asks the reader: "How soon will they be all forgotten?"
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

A man and two women clean the floor of a shop. A sign on the wall in English and Yiddish says, "Please do as much as you can! Thank You!" Another sign reads, "Union Made Bread"
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Labor Day parade float in Montreal, featuring the ILGWU midinettes, September 2, 1946. Signs in French and English call for vacation pay, health and sick fund, and the 40-hour work week.
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

A woman seated at a Singer sewing machine, possibly making gloves
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Midvale Company employee fitting revolving center for lathes, ca. 1943
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Elroe Kimbrell sitting and picking cotton
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

School teachers visiting the Midvale Company plant examine and photograph a furnace with a steel worker close by, April 15, 1953
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

Men sewing by hand and machine in a shop
by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library

May day Rally
by dying regime