Crowd at Triangle Funeral Parade
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union Archives, Kheel Center, Cornell University.
Rights:
JWA use only on jwa.org
Submitter:
Morley, Barb
Institution:
Kheel Center, Cornell University
Description:
More than 140,000 mourners met on April 5, 1911 in Washington Square Park and marched up Fifth Avenue in a funeral parade in memory of the unidentified victims of the Triangle fire. Nearly 250,000 onlookers lined the route.