Help us honor the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

On March 25, 1911, a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York’s Greenwich Village killed 146 garment workers – most of them women, most of them immigrants, many of them teenagers – in the space of 15 minutes.

The Triangle workers were the victims of both their bosses’ cruel indifference and public negligence, but they did not die in vain. Their deaths reinvigorated a fight for decent wages and working conditions that transformed America.

The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that is committed to remembering the victims of this tragic fire and honoring their legacies.To find out how to get involved and help build the Triangle Fire Memorial, visit us online at www.rememberthetrianglefire.org or www.facebook.com/trianglefirecoalition.

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Build the Triangle Fire Memorial to remember and inspire.

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L’Abbate, Annie, 16Lansner, Fannie, 21Lauletti, Maria Giuseppa, 33Lederman, Jennie, 21Lehrer, Max, 18Lehrer, Sam, 19Leone, Kate, 14Leventhal, Mary, 22Levin, Jennie, 19Levine, Pauline, 19Liebowitz, Nettie, 23Liermark, Rose, 19Maiale, Bettina, 18Maiale, Frances, 21Maltese, Catherine, 39Maltese, Lucia, 20Maltese, Rosaria, 14Manaria, Maria, 27Mankofsky, Rose, 22Mehl, Rose, 15Meyers, Yetta, 19Midolo, Gaetana, 16Miller, Annie, 16Neubauer, Beckie, 19Nicholas, Annie, 18Nicolosi, Michelina, 21Nussbaum, Sadie, 18Oberstein, Julia, 19Oringer, Rose, 19Ostrovsky , Beckie, 20Pack, Annie, 18Panno, Provindenza, 43Pasqualicchio, Antonietta, 16Pearl, Ida, 20Pildescu, Jennie, 18Pinelli, Vincenza, 30Prato, Emilia, 21Prestifilippo, Concetta, 22Reines, Beckie, 18Rosen (Loeb), Louis, 33

Rosen, Fannie, 21Rosen, Israel, 17Rosen, Julia, 35Rosenbaum, Yetta, 22Rosenberg, Jennie, 21Rosenfeld, Gussie, 22Rothstein, Emma, 22Rotner, Theodore, 22Sabasowitz, Sarah, 17Salemi, Santina, 24Saracino, Sarafina, 25Saracino, Teresina, 20Schiffman, Gussie, 18Schmidt, Theresa, 32Schneider, Ethel, 20Schochet, Violet, 21Schpunt, Golda, 19Schwartz, Margaret, 24Seltzer, Jacob, 33Shapiro, Rosie, 17Sklover, Ben, 25Sorkin, Rose, 18Starr, Annie, 30Stein, Jennie, 18Stellino, Jennie, 16Stiglitz, Jennie, 22Taback, Sam, 20Terranova, Clotilde, 22Tortorelli, Isabella, 17Utal, Meyer, 23Uzzo, Catherine, 22Velakofsky, Frieda, 20Viviano, Bessie, 15Weiner, Rosie, 20Weintraub, Sarah, 17Weisner, Tessie, 21Welfowitz, Dora, 21Wendroff, Bertha, 18Wilson, Joseph, 22Wisotsky, Sonia, 17

FRONT COVER

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Memorial commemorates the victims at the site of the tragedy by means of re�ection and inversion, operating at two scales, the individual and the urban.

We imagine the memorial as a place of emotional and perceptual re�ection. The names of the victims will be cut from a horizontal metal plate mounted 13 feet above the sidewalk, and will be perceived through a horizontal mirrored surface, mounted at hip level. Here the names will appear to be written in strokes of the New York City sky, the ever-changing but eternal backdrop that, along with the building site, connects us to the tragic and important events of March 25, 1911. Visitors will read the names indirectly through a re�ection, discovering the names themselves, creating an intimate experience.

The re�ective metal plate will also contain a map and a line of text etched directly onto the surface. The map shows where the victims lived - connecting present day New York to the city that belonged to a shirtwaist worker in 1911. The text will tell the story of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in a single line, drawing the visitor across the length of two facades, connecting the name of each victim with the narrative of the tragedy. These street level panels transition to a vertical mirror at the corner of the building, addressing the urban scale of the memorial. Extending upward and ending abruptly at the 8th �oor where the �re started, the vertical panels will give the corner of the building a sharp but visually ambiguous edge. From afar, it will appear as an illusionary mixture of the edge of the building, the re�ected urban environment and sky, creating a compounded image and a new urban landmark, asking the passerby to stop and look closer. The sudden cut of this vertical element marks both the site of the tragedy and the height from which many of the victims fell to their deaths.

The memorial seeks to create connections between each victim’s name and the narrative of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, between the victims and present day citizens, between the site of the tragedy and New York City today, creating an intimate space for re�ection and empathy.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Martin AbramowitzKevin BakerSuzanne Pred BassRobin BersonMeg BrowneRose ImperatoSherry Kane

Get involved to build the Triangle Fire Memorial.

Rob LinneLuLu LoLoJoel SosinskyLinda A. StagnoMary Anne TrasciattiDaniel Levinson Wilk

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Kalpona Akter, Executive Director, Bangladesh Centre for Worker Solidarity (BCWS)

Rick Bell, Executive Director, Design and Construction Excellence, NYC Department of Design and Construction

Cheryl Beredo, Director, Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives, Cornell University

Gale Brewer, Manhattan Borough President

Joyce F. Brown, President, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY

May Ying Chen, Manager, Local 23-25, Workers United (retired)

Esther Cohen, Writer, Teacher, Cultural Activist

Roberta Elins, President, United College Employees of the Fashion Institute of Technology

Robert Forrant, Chair, Bread and Roses Centennial Committee

Judy Gearhart, Executive Director, International Labor Rights Forum

Nina Libeskind, COO, Studio Daniel Libeskind

John Madden, Attorney at Law

Karen Magee, President, NYSUT

Keith Mestrich, CEO, Amalgamated Bank

Sheila Nevins, President, HBO Documentary Films

Ed Ott, Distinguished Lecturer, Murphy Institute, CUNY

Daphne Pinkerson, Producer, HBO Documentary Films

Gina Pollara, Senior Advisor, ReThinkNYC

Edgar Romney, Secretary Treasurer, Workers United/SEIU

Cecilia Rubino, Assistant Professor, Lang College/The New School

Ruth Sergel, Founder, Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition

Anthony Tamburri, Dean, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, CUNY

David Walsh, CEO, Amalgamated Life Insurance Co.

Suzanne Wasserman, Director, Gotham Center for New York History, CUNY

Images (clockwise front page): Procession at the Triangle Fire Centennial Commemoration (Lucy Oakley), ILGWU mourning procession after the Triangle Fire (Kheel Center, Cornell University), CHALK (Robert Domingo, FDNY), laying of flowers at the Triangle Fire Centennial (Robert Domingo, FDNY). Images above (clockwise): Reframing the Sky, the winning entry of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition’s international memorial design competition, by Richard Joon Yoo and Uri Wegman; the fire at the original Triangle factory in 1911 (Kheel Center, Cornell University).

The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition brings together groups from all over the world to remember the victims of the 1911 tragedy in which 146 garment workers, most of them young immigrant women, lost their lives. This event seared the nation’s conscience and created a pivotal moment in U.S. labor history that led to historic fire safety and labor law reforms.

Although the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was one of the deadliest industrial disasters in U.S. history, there is no permanent memorial to the young women and men who lost their lives. But we at the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition want to change this by building a permanent public art work that will both remember the victims of the fire and honor the social and political activism that it inspired.

The design, pictured here, was selected in an international competition by an esteemed jury of architects, artists, and historians. It will be one of the few memorials to honor workers, especially this nation’s women and immigrant workers, and will serve as a reminder that public activism inspires progressive change. As a public artwork, it will be a beacon to the women and men who continue to fight for safer working conditions around the world.

The Coalition has secured the space, at the site of the original fire, and has selected a winning design for the memorial. But this dream will only become a reality with your financial support.

Please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition at www.rememberthetrianglefire.org/donate to help us build a tribute to the workers who sacrificed their lives and to those who continue to struggle for safe working conditions today.

Thank you for your support.

Mary Anne Trasciatti Chair, Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Memorial commemorates the victims at the site of the tragedy by means of re�ection and inversion, operating at two scales, the individual and the urban.

We imagine the memorial as a place of emotional and perceptual re�ection. The names of the victims will be cut from a horizontal metal plate mounted 13 feet above the sidewalk, and will be perceived through a horizontal mirrored surface, mounted at hip level. Here the names will appear to be written in strokes of the New York City sky, the ever-changing but eternal backdrop that, along with the building site, connects us to the tragic and important events of March 25, 1911. Visitors will read the names indirectly through a re�ection, discovering the names themselves, creating an intimate experience.

The re�ective metal plate will also contain a map and a line of text etched directly onto the surface. The map shows where the victims lived - connecting present day New York to the city that belonged to a shirtwaist worker in 1911. The text will tell the story of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in a single line, drawing the visitor across the length of two facades, connecting the name of each victim with the narrative of the tragedy. These street level panels transition to a vertical mirror at the corner of the building, addressing the urban scale of the memorial. Extending upward and ending abruptly at the 8th �oor where the �re started, the vertical panels will give the corner of the building a sharp but visually ambiguous edge. From afar, it will appear as an illusionary mixture of the edge of the building, the re�ected urban environment and sky, creating a compounded image and a new urban landmark, asking the passerby to stop and look closer. The sudden cut of this vertical element marks both the site of the tragedy and the height from which many of the victims fell to their deaths.

The memorial seeks to create connections between each victim’s name and the narrative of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, between the victims and present day citizens, between the site of the tragedy and New York City today, creating an intimate space for re�ection and empathy.

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A steel beam reflecting the sky will reach the 8th floor where the fire began.

The names of all 146 victims will be engraved on the steel panel seen above and reflected directly below in another panel that tells the story of the event.