Triangle Factory Fire Project

Name: Triangle Factory Fire Project
Price: 10.95 USD
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ISBN: 9780822220480

ISBN-10: 0822220482

ISBN-13: 9780822220480

Edition: 2005

Authors: Christopher Piehler, Scott Alan Evans

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THE STORY: Saturday, March 25, 1911. 4:45 P.M. In the Triangle Waist Factory off downtown Manhattan's Washington Square—where 500 immigrant workers from Poland, Russia and Italy toil fourteen-hour days making lady's dresses—a cigarette is tossed into a bin of fabric scraps. Despite desperate efforts, flames sweep through the eighth, ninth and tenth floors. Panic-stricken workers run in all directions. On the ninth floor, some make it to the fire escape, only to have it collapse beneath their weight. Others run to the exit door but find it locked—many, including the soon-to-be-married Margaret Schwartz, die with their hands on the doorknob. Dozens leap from the windows to their deaths,…

Book details

List price: $9.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 72
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.50" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.198
Language: English