How the Other Half LivesJacob Riis Photography

Urbanization in the 19th Century

Homeless Children

Tenement Life

Men in a Bunk house

Homework: Cigar Rollers

Necktie Makers in a Tenement Apartment

Tenement Floor plans

Tenement Museum

NYC

Kitchen and Living Room – Tenement Museum

Kitchen and Bedroom – Tenement Museum

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Immigration Meets Urbanization

“Fire-Proof” The building

that housed the Triangle Factory on the 8th, 9th, and 10th floors was state of the art – and “fire-proof”

Triangle FireJust weeks before the disaster that claimed 146 lives, many of the girls working at the factory had participated in strikes and labor meetings.

Victims of the Triangle Fire

What happened? Read the summary provided –

What are your reactions to the events that occurred March 25, 1911?

What could have been done to prevent this loss of life?

How would such an event be handled today?