A 1911 English, Yiddish, and Italian announcement for the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire victims’ funeral procession. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory had been one of the shops where striking workers demanded safer working conditions a year earlier. One hundred and forty-six workers, most of them Jewish and Italian teenage girls, were killed in the March 25, 1911 fire.

This image is part of the Labor Arts exhibit Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives: 100 Years of Labor in New York City, composed of stories, songs and photographs from the book Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives: A Pictorial History of Working People in New York City (NYU Press, 2000), by Debra E. Berhnardt and Rachel Bernstein.