Triangle Shirt Waist Company Legal Documents, 1911-1981
Collection Number: 6036/033

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Triangle Shirt Waist Company Legal Documents, 1911-1981
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
6036/033
Creator:
Triangle Shirt Waist Company
Quanitities:
2.42 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English

Biographical / Historical

The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union was once one of the largest labor unions in the United States founded in 1900 by local union delegates representing about 2,000 members in cities in the northeastern United States. It was one of the first U.S. Unions to have a membership consisting of mostly females, and it played a key role in the labor history of the 1920s and 1930s. The union is generally referred to as the "ILGWU" or the "ILG". The ILGWU grew in geographical scope, membership size, and political influence to become one of the most powerful forces in American organized labor by mid-century. Representing workers in the women's garment industry, the ILGWU worked to improve working and living conditions of its members through collective bargaining agreements, training programs, health care facilities, cooperative housing, educational opportunities, and other efforts. The ILGWU merged with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union in 1995 to form the Union of Needle trades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE). UNITE merged with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) in 2004 to create a new union known as UNITE HERE. The two unions that formed UNITE in 1995 represented only 250,000 workers between them, down from the ILGWU's peak membership of 450,000 in 1969.
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Preferred Citation

Triangle Shirt Waist Company Legal Documents #6036/033. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1 Folder 1
National Consumers League, George C. Bean and Novelty Silk Shop Inc. against Triangle Waist Company
1914
Scope and Contents
Trial documents
Box 1 Folder 2
My Memories as a Worker in the Notorious Triangle Waist Company Factory in New York City, Beginning in 1906
Box 1 Folder 3
Emergency Relife after the Washington Place Fire
1912
Scope and Contents
Report of the Red Cross Emergency Relief Committee of the Charity Organization Society of the City of New York
Box 1 Folder 4
Triangle
1981
Scope and Contents
Screenplay by Naomi Foner, first draft
Box 2 Folder 1
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript, pages 1-150; copy 1.
Box 2 Folder 2
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript, pages 151-300; copy 1.
Box 2 Folder 3
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript, pages 301-450; copy 1.
Box 2 Folder 4
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript, pages 451-600; copy 1.
Box 2 Folder 5
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript, pages 601-672; copy 1.
Box 2 Folder 6
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript, pages 1212-1350; copy 1.
Box 2 Folder 7
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript, pages 1351-1500; copy 1.
Box 2 Folder 8
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript, pages 1501-1650; copy 1.
Box 2 Folder 9
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript, pages 1651-1800; copy 1.
Box 2 Folder 10
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript, pages 1801-1901; copy 1.
Box 2 Folder 11
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript, pages 2053-2204, notes; copy 1.
Box 2 Folder 12
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript, pages 1-125; copy 2.
Box 2 Folder 13
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript, pages 126-250; copy 2.
Box 2 Folder 14
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript, pages 251-400; copy 2.
Box 2 Folder 15
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript, pages 401-550; copy 2.
Box 2 Folder 16
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript, pages 551-672; copy 2.
Box 2 Folder 17
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript, pages 1212-1350; copy 2.
Box 2 Folder 18
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript, pages 1351-1465; copy 2.
Box 2 Folder 19
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript, pages 1755-1901; copy 2.
Box 2 Folder 20
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript, pages 2053-2123, notes; copy 2.
Box 3 Folder 1
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck [reel 1 of 6]
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript
Box 3 Folder 2
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck [reel 2 of 6]
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript
Box 3 Folder 3
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck [reel 3 of 6]
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript
Box 3 Folder 4
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck [reel 4 of 6]
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript
Box 3 Folder 5
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck [reel 5 of 6]
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript
Box 3 Folder 6
People of the State of New York against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck [reel 6 of 6]
1911
Scope and Contents
Transcript
Box 4
Triangle Fire Tiffs, pt. 1
Box 4 Folder 1
Triangle Fire Tiffs, pt. 1 -- removed from bx 2
Scope and Contents
Compact Disc
Box 5
Triangle Fire Tiffs, pt. 2
Box 5 Folder 1
Triangle Fire Tiffs, pt. 2 -- removed from bx 2
Scope and Contents
Compact Disc
Box 6
Triangle Fire Tiffs, pt. 1
Box 6 Folder 1
Triangle Fire Tiffs, pt. 1 -- removed from bx 2
Scope and Contents
Compact Disc
Box 7
Triangle Fire Tiffs, pt. 2
Box 7 Folder 1
Triangle Fire Tiffs, pt. 2 -- removed from bx 2
Scope and Contents
Compact Disc
Box 8
Triangle Fire : Word docs, OCR docs
Box 8 Folder 1
Triangle Fire : Word docs, OCR docs -- removed from bx 2
Scope and Contents
Compact Disc
Box 9
Triangle Tiff 2
Box 9 Folder 1
Triangle Tiff 2 -- removed from bx 2
Scope and Contents
Compact Disc