As Victims of the Triangle Fire Get a Memorial This Week, Earlier Tributes Can Be Heard

This week a memorial (audio above) to the 146 victims of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in March 1911 was dedicated at the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street. The tribute work was designed by Richard Joon Yoo and Uri Wegman and was selected in a competition a decade ago. See: TRIANGLE FIRE MEMORIAL 

From our collections, we have pulled the following material from earlier memorials, interviews, and programming. 

The Former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Eleanor Roosevelt, and fire survivors spoke at the 50th anniversary of the fire in 1961.

A feature on the fire by Amy Goodman was produced for WNYC in 1987.

Listen to one of the fire survivors, Pauline Pepe, speaking at a commemoration in 1986.

The WPA dramatization of the fire in 1938 for the program "This Was News."

Here is the official 1990 Triangle memorial.

More from the 50th-anniversary memorial.

Fire survivors Anna Gullo Pidone, Yetta Kreisel, Josephine Nicolosi and Flo Coannides at the 50th anniversary commemorative ceremony. March 25, 1961.

(AP Photo)

50th anniversary memorial WNYC broadcast courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives.