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100 Years After the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

From the PRI radio program "The World". Provides photos, text and an audio narration about the 100th anniversary of the tragic fire.

Ancestry.com - Earth, Wind, and the Great Chicago Fire

Article by Jennifer Browning.

Collinwood Ohio School Fire 1908 Photographs

Photographs of the aftermath of the Lakeview School fire Mar 4, 1908, in Collinwood, a suburb of Cleveland, OH.

GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - Fires

GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable.

Peshtigo Fire Page

Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition

A group spearheading the creation of commemorative events.

The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory

The Great Fires of 1871 in the Northwest

Wisconsin.

The Peshtigo Fire

The Tragedy of the Precious Blood Church Fire

Compilation of various resources & comparative lists of the reported deaths from the 1875 fire in Holyoke, MA.

The Triangle Factory Fire

New York City. Sweatshop fire on March 25, 1911.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial 1911

WGBH American Experience . Triangle Fire | PBS

From PBS' "American Experience" television program. The program can be viewed online. Includes interactive maps, transcriptions of original documents such as newspaper coverage of the event.