 | Workers marching up Fifth Avenue in a memorial march to the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, 1911. New York Tribune, 1911. (The Tribune is defunct.) In American Heritage, VIII, 5, Aug. 1957, p. 57. 11.2.9 |
 | The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, 1911. Shows bodies of girls, garment workers, who jumped from windows trying to escape the fire. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, NY 12538. Our thanks to the FDR Library. In American Heritage VIII, 5, Aug. 1957, p. 55. 11.2.1 |
 | Family in sweatshop. Mother and children make paper roses for twenty cents a gross, thus earning two to three dollars a week. Many families took in lodgers to eke out miserable incomes. Other sweatshop products were garments, cigars and needlework. Jacob Riis photo. Jacob A. Riis Collection. Courtesy of The Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave. at 103rd St., New York, NY 10029. All rights reserved. Our thanks to the Museum. In The Life History of the United States, Time-Life Books, 1974, Vol. 8, p. 75. 11.2.1 |
 | "Don't talk to us about disease; it's Bread we're after, Bread!" Urban industrial problems, 1898. Copyright holder unknown. In Walter A. Wyckoff, The Workers, Charles Scribner's Sons Publishing, 1898, p. 246. 11.2.1 |
 | The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire - the wrecked fire escape, 1911. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, NY 12538. Our thanks to The FDR Library. In American Heritage, VIII, 5, Aug. 1957, p. 56. 11.2.1 |
 | The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, 1911. The impact shattered this glass block sidewalk when victims jumped from window. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, NY 12538. Our thanks to The FDR Library. In American Heritage, VIII, 5, Aug. 1957, p. 56. 11.2.1 |
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