Note to researchers: This exhibit presents mainly primary documents, with a selection of secondary documents. If you are new to research of this type, please review the difference between primary sources and secondary sources under Tips for Students.
- New York Times, March 26, 1911, p. 1. "141 Men and Girls Die in Waist Factory Fire; Trapped High Up in Washington Place Building; Street Strewn with Bodies; Piles of Dead Inside."
- Chicago Sunday Tribune, March 26, 1911, p. 1. "New York Fire Kills 148."
- New York Times, March 26, 1911, p. 4. "Stories of Survivors. And Witnesses and Rescuers Outside Tell What They Saw."
- New York Times, March 26, 1911, p. 4. "Lived Amid Flames, But Nearly Drowns."
- New York Times, March 26, 1911, p. 4. "Crowd At Police Station; Mercer Street is Turned Into an Emergency Hospital"
- New York Times, March 26, 1911, p. 4. "Death List Shows Few Identified"
- Chicago Sunday Tribune, March 28, 1911, p. 2. "Thrilling Incidents in Gotham Holocaust That Wiped Out One Hundred and Fifty Lives."
- Ladies' Garment Worker, April 1911. [notice of the fire]
- American Federationist, May 1911, "Hostile Employers See Yourselves as Others Know You"
- Ladies' Garment Worker, September 1911, "Echoes from the Triangle Fire"
- Ladies' Garment Worker, Oct. 1911, "Agitation Among the Ladies' Waistmakers, Local 25."
- Outlook, April 15, 1911. "The Factory Girl's Danger."
- American Federationist, July 1911 "The Triangle Union Relief"
- New York Times, March 28, 1911, p. 1. "Blame Shifted on All Sides for Fire Horror."
- Outlook, April 22, 1911, "Indictments in the Asch Fire Case"
- Outlook, April 29, 1911,"Placing the Responsibility"
- Literary Digest, January 1912, "147 Dead, Nobody Guilty"