They sewed shirtwaits, a common clothing article at the time.
The building was 10 stories high. The fire occurred on the top three.
It was on the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place, in the Greenwich Village section of New York City.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Company was owned by Max Blanck and Isaac Harris.
The factory, on upper floors of a high rise building, was destroyed by fire, in part because it was not equipped with sprinklers, and because it held lots of flammable materials. The building,...