Michael Lobel
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On the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, John Sloan's searing March 1911 illustration for the New York Call, a Socialist newspaper, responding to the tragic event
Drawing of a triangle with rent, profit, and interest on each of the three sides. Within it, the burnt body of a woman; a skeleton to the left, and a capitalist figure to the right
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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it’s the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the site of which — it’s easy to forget — is an active classroom building
our Lilly Sabella went there to talk to professors and students about what it means to study on the same floors where the fire took place
Once a Sweatshop, Now a Lab for Life: Studying Inside the Triangle Shirtwaist Site
Wednesday marks the 115th anniversary of the fire there that 146 workers perished in. Now, NYU students research fruit flies and ant brains on the building’s upper floors.
www.thecity.nyc
10:22 AM · Mar 25, 2026
On the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, John Sloan's searing March 1911 illustration for the New York Call, a Socialist newspaper, responding to the tragic event
— Michael Lobel (@mlobelart.bsky.social) 2026-03-25T14:22:57.215Z
Rachel Holliday Smith
@rachelholliday.bsky.social
it’s the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the site of which — it’s easy to forget — is an active classroom building
our Lilly Sabella went there to talk to professors and students about what it means to study on the same floors where the fire took place
Once a Sweatshop, Now a Lab for Life: Studying Inside the Triangle Shirtwaist Site
Wednesday marks the 115th anniversary of the fire there that 146 workers perished in. Now, NYU students research fruit flies and ant brains on the building’s upper floors.
www.thecity.nyc
9:24 AM · Mar 25, 2026
it’s the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the site of which — it’s easy to forget — is an active classroom building
our Lilly Sabella went there to talk to professors and students about what it means to study on the same floors where the fire took place
— Rachel Holliday Smith (@rachelholliday.bsky.social) 2026-03-25T13:24:35.246Z
Michael Lobel
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And for the sake of historical completeness here is Sloan's illustration as it appeared on the first page of the New York Call on March 27, 1911, two days after the Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Cover of the New York Call for Monday, March 27, 1911, with illustration by John Sloan responding to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
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10:26 AM · Mar 25, 2026
And for the sake of historical completeness here is Sloan's illustration as it appeared on the first page of the New York Call on March 27, 1911, two days after the Triangle Shirtwaist fire
— Michael Lobel (@mlobelart.bsky.social) 2026-03-25T14:26:42.115Z
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