1. It costs a dime to look through this Bausch and Lomb high power telescope Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Zoom In Inquiry

2. WHAT DO YOU SEE?

3. WHAT ARE THESE PEOPLE DOING? WHERE IS THIS PHOTO TAKEN?

4. WHEN WAS THIS PHOTO TAKEN? WHY DO YOU THINK THAT?

5. WHY ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE HERE? WHY ARE THEY ALL FACING ONE DIRECTION?

6. LOOK AT THE UPPER RIGHT CORNER OF THE PHOTO…

7. THIS EVENT TOUCHED THE LIVES OF MANY PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY… HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS?

8. LOOK AT THIS HEADLINE… AND THEN AT THE DIAGRAM…. WHAT IS IT SHOWING YOU?

9. LOOK AT THIS PICTURE… WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE PICTURE? WHAT DO YOU NOTICE ABOUT THE VEHICLES ON THE STREET? HOW IS THIS IMAGE RELATED TO THE OTHERS?

10. HOW HAVE THINGS CHANGED SINCE THIS TIME? DESCRIBE WHAT THE PICTURE SAYS OF THE URGENCY OF THE SITUATION.

11. QUESTIONS TO PONDER??? HOW HAVE THINGS CHANGED IN TERMS OF BUILDING CODES SINCE 1911? (Were there codes then? If so, why did this happen?) HOW HAS THE RESPONSE TO A FIRE CHANGED? THINK OF ALL OF THE VARIABLES WHICH CAUSED THIS EVENT TO BE SUCH A TRAGEDY.

12. Unknown. (1911). Firemen searching for bodies. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs, George Grantham Bain Collection.Firemen searching for bodies. Unknown. (1911). Le tragedie del lavoro. Library of Congress: American Memory, American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources.Le tragedie del lavoro. Unknown. (1911). Triangle Waist Co. fire, N.Y.C.--Crowds at sence [i.e. scene] of Washington St. fire, N.Y. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs, George Grantham Bain Collection.Triangle Waist Co. fire, N.Y.C.--Crowds at sence [i.e. scene] of Washington St. fire, N.Y. Unknown. (1911). [Horse-drawn fire engines in street, on their way to the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire, New York City]. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs, George Grantham Bain Collection.[Horse-drawn fire engines in street, on their way to the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire, New York City].