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[Horse-drawn fire engines in street, on their way to the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire, New York City] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Horse-drawn fire engines in street, on their way to the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire, New York City], 1911 March [25] — historic photograph
[Horse-drawn fire engines in street, on their way to the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire, New York City], 1911 March [25]. Historic photograph from the Fire Engines collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Horse-drawn fire engines race through a city street on their way to the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire, which broke out on March 25, 1911, in a loft building near Washington Square in Manhattan. The blaze killed 146 garment workers, most of them young immigrant women, and it became a turning point in labor and fire safety reform in New York. The photograph came from the Bain News Service, a wire agency whose negatives are now held by the Library of Congress. Worth noticing are the horses themselves, which were still the backbone of city fire companies just before motorized apparatus replaced them.

Created / published1911 March [25]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesBain News Service photograph. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsTriangle Shirtwaist Company--Fire, 1911. Triangle Shirtwaist Company--Disasters--1910-1920. Fire fighters--New York (State)--New York--1910-1920. Fires--New York (State)--New York--1910-1920. Fire engines & equipment--New York (State)--New York--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,126 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-117495

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