Two NYU Exhibitions: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

This month marks the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. Two on-campus exhibitions are commemorating this event, its consequences, and its enduring historical lessons.

“The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: One Hundred Years After”
Multimedia exhibition curated by the Tamiment Library
NYU Open House (528 LaGuardia, between Bleecker and W. 3rd Streets)
On exhibit until May 2011

Art ● Memory ● Place
Collaborative Exhibition between the Grey Art Gallery
and NYU Graduate Students in Museum Studies and Public History
100 Washington Square East
January 11 - March 26 / April 12 - July 9

Next Wed, 11/17: Publication Celebration of RETHINKING U.S. LABOR HISTORY: Tamiment Library

Tamiment Library and Program in Metropolitan Studies invites you to join us in celebrating the publication of

Rethinking U.S. Labor History:

Essays on the Working-Class Experience, 1756 - 2009

ed. Donna T. Haverty-Stacke and Daniel J. Walkowitz (Continuum International Publishing Group)

With a panel discussion on Rethinking U.S. Labor History: Thoughts on the Recent Past and Future of the Field to include the editor and two of the contributors: Donna Haverty-Stacke CUNY, Hunter College), Daniel Walkowitz (SCA/History, NYU), Eric Arnesen (George Washington University) and Zach Schwartz-Weinstein (American Studies, NYU) with a comment by Michael Nash of the Tamiment Library, NYU

Refreshments to follow.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17

6:00PM - 8:00 PM

Department of Social & Cultural Analysis

New York University

20 Cooper Square, 4th Fl

New York, NY 10003

Tamiment Library

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