emilywmason1904May 26, 20201 min readA memorial for the 'triangle' womenGroups of men, women and children lined rows of tables, hand-sewing swatches of colorful fabric together at the Fashion Institute of Technology earlier this month. They were creating a crucial part of the long-anticipated memorial to the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, the 1911 disaster that killed 146 people, 123 of them women.
Groups of men, women and children lined rows of tables, hand-sewing swatches of colorful fabric together at the Fashion Institute of Technology earlier this month. They were creating a crucial part of the long-anticipated memorial to the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, the 1911 disaster that killed 146 people, 123 of them women.