1. By : Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
Life in a Big Urban City
in the Gilded Age
By : Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

2. Immigration
Entry points - Ellis Island in New York City

3. Where were they coming from?
These “New Immigrants” were coming from Eastern and Southern Europe (Italy, Greece, Russia and Poland)
Most were Catholic or Jews

4. Jacob Riis'
How the Other
Half Lives (1890)

5. Jacob Riis
Jacob Riis documented life in New York City in the late 1800s, by taking pictures in the crowded tenements.
His book: How The Other Half Lives
This book opened the eyes of many people on how the poor and recent immigrants were living in New York

6. Mulberry Street Bend, 1889

7. 5-Cent Lodgings

8. Women’s Lodgings

9. Immigrant Family Lodgings

10. Dumbbell Tenement Plan
Tenement House Act of 1879, NYC

11. ”Bandits’ Roost”

12. Mullen’s Alley ”Gang”

13. A Struggling Immigrant Family

14. Another Struggling Immigrant Family

15. Shirtwaist Workers
Strike

16. Rosa Schneiderman, Garment Worker

17. Child Labor

18. Average Shirtwaist Worker’s Week Total employees, men and women 82,360
51 hours or less
4,554 5%
52-57 hours
65,033
79%
58-63 hours
12,211
15%
Over 63 hours
562 1%
Total employees, men and women 82,360

19. The Triangle
Shirtwaist
Factory Fire,
March 25, 1911

20. “The Shirtwaist Kings” Max Blanck and Isaac Harris

21. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Asch Building, 8th and 10th Floors

23. Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

24. Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

25. Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

26. Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

27. Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

28. Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

29. Inside the Building After the Fire

30. Most Doors Were Locked

32. Crumpled Fire Escape, 26 Died

33. One of the Heroes

34. 10th Floor After the Fire

35. Dead Bodies on the Sidewalk

36. One of the “Lucky” Ones?

37. Rose Schneiderman The Last Survivor

38. Scene at the Morgue

39. Relatives Review Bodies 145 Dead

40. Page of the New York Journal

41. One of the Many Funerals

42. Protestors March to City Hall

43. Labor Unions March as Mourners

44. Women Workers March to City Hall

45. The Investigation

47. Francis Perkins Future Secetary Of Labor

48. Alfred E. Smith – Future NYC Mayor and Presidential Candidate

49. Future Senator Robert Wagner

50. Out of the Ashes ILGWU membership surged.
NYC created a Bureau of Fire Prevention.
New strict building codes were passed.
Tougher fire inspection of sweatshops.
Growing momentum of support for women’s suffrage.

51. The Foundations Were Laid for the New Deal Here in 1911
Al Smith ran unsuccessfully in 1928 on many of the reform programs that would be successful for another New Yorker 4 years later – FDR.
In the 1930s, the federal government created OSHA [the Occupational Safety & Health Administration].
The Wagner Act.
Francis Perkins  first female Cabinet member [Secretary of Labor] in FDR’s administration.

52. History of the Needlecraft Industry by Ernest Feeney, 1938

53. Bibliography
Davis, Hadley. “Reform and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.” Concord Review womenshistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/ offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww. tcr.org%2Ftriangle.html
“Famous Trials: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Trial ” triangle/trianglefire.html
“The Triangle Fire.”