Exhibition Traces a Century of Commemorations of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911

NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.- Marking the centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Factory Fire—New York City’s largest workplace disaster before 9/11—New York University’s Grey Art Gallery presents an exhibition tracing 100 years of the fire’s memorializations. Art/Memory/Place: Commemorating the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire opened on January 11, 2011, and explores both historic and contemporary efforts to document the tragedy in which 146 garment workers—mostly young women from Jewish and Italian families living on the nearby Lower East Side—lost their lives. The fire broke out on March 25, 1911, in the Asch Building, now named the Brown Building and part of NYU’s Silver Center complex (which is also

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