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Picketers in front of Superior Products factory in Puerto Rico demand dignified treatment, drinking water, and a fair minimum wage.
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Midvale Company operators opening 50 ton ladle to pour molten steel, 1930
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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
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Drawing "The Locked Door!" refers to the Triangle fire and depicts young women throwing themselves against a locked door in an attempt to escape the flames.
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Long tables of mostly women sewing in a garment shop
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Four Midvale Company employees working tongs in Smith Shop, August 1932
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May day Rally
by dying regime

WPA workers shoveling plant material
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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.
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Cleaning in foundry. Photo taken for National Safety Council and Midvale Company Safety Department, 1949
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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
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Midvale Company employees operating machines that pour moulten metal into pots, April 13, 1945
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Police officers and fire fighters check for signs of life and collect personal items from victims of the Triangle fire.
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People at the 26th Street pier morgue walk by rows of open coffins, attempting to identify victims of the Triangle fire, March 1911
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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"
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Third cast steel pour at Midvale Company, April 13, 1928
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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"
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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?"
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A young boy, Elroe Lawrence, picks cotton
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Midvale Company employee fitting revolving center for lathes, ca. 1943
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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.
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A woman seated at a Singer sewing machine, possibly making gloves
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Midvale Company workers creating makeshift ramp. Sign reads "Danger. Radio-Active [?] Keep-Out," 1953
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Men sewing by hand and machine in a shop
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Elroe Kimbrell sitting and picking cotton
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School teachers visiting the Midvale Company plant examine and photograph a furnace with a steel worker close by, April 15, 1953
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May day Rally
by dying regime

Memorial to the victims of the Triangle Fire
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Illustration of a typical sweatshop, at 12 Hester Street, New York; appeared in a publication, 1885.
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Midvale Company employee wearing a hard hat stands in front of metal pile, some pieces are numbered, ca. 1950s
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Midvale Company employees and 280mm artillery shell at the #16 press, February 13, 1953
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Midvale Steel Company workers open the number 6 hearth and charge the furnace, ca. 1887
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Midvale Company operator E.J. Hughes cutting scrap ends in ATP, May 13, 1946
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Midvale Company steel worker using machine, [a lathe?], ca. 1953
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A newspaper photograph of an internal staircase in the Asch Building after the Triangle fire
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Midvale Company employee straightening bucket wheel on steam hammer, August 1932
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Newspaper photographs of the Triangle fire, showing victims on the ground outside the Asch Building and at the morgue, March 27. 1911
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Midvale Company employees watching billet for General Electric Company coming out of heating furnace #2 press, January 27, 1953
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Midvale Company employees C.R. Smith Pyrometer, John Murtha with Calliper (driver), Schram and Joseph Hall at levers, April 8, 1954
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Midvale Company employee straddling a chipper while holding a jackhammer, March 1951
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Operator James Ferguson with the top E Frame for Westinghouse Company, order D56-751 (6'8" long x 8'4" x 2'0"). April 20, 1948
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Newspaper photgraphs in the New York Evening Journal show the burned Asch Building interior and exterior, March 27, 1911
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An aging presser who is about 60 years old and has worked at the shop since he was 18 earning $6 per week, brushes pants while a woman looks on.
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Ben Lawrence (nearest in the trench) and others digging a trench on a WPA job
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Illustration depicting a wrapped corpse being lowered by rope from the Asch Building following the Triangle fire
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Men sewing in a garment shop
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Picketers support Chicago Hirsh, Son Inc., employees who are on strike. One sign says "The Day of the Sweatshop is Over."
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May day Rally
by dying regime

Midvale Company operator O. Seibold fitting revolving center for lathes, August 9, 1943
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Midvale Company employee with calipers measures steel in the Smith Shop, August 1932
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Men are pressing in the foreground, while women and men sew in the rear of Kaufman's garment shop, 362 Madison St., [New York?], 1911.
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Midvale Company employee cleaning casting. Photo taken for National Safety Council and Midvale Safety Department, 1949
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Crowds gather to mourn Triangle fire victims the day after the tragedy, March 26, 1911
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Midvale Company employee Elmer Drey cutting armor plate, May 9, 1946
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Midvale Company employees on the number 7 hammer gang, March 25, 1953
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Negative print showing the street in front of the Asch Building, where the Triangle Waist Company fire burned
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Midvale Company employee Charles Hall [Hill?], Press Driver on steam hammer #6, February 5, 1932
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Midvale Company gear band for DeLaval Company. Machinist Malkowski inside ring; Helper Fioravanti outside ring. Size: O.D. 170"; I.D. 163"; Depth 419/16". January 28, 1953
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Midvale Company Operator William Thorpe, using new machine R-3812, #2 tool room, making 6 thread Acme Hobs, made of Midvale #26 steel for #65:5. Used for threading 6" shells. October 6, 1943
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