Triangle Fire Morgue
After the Triangle fire on March 26, 1911, New York City set up a makeshift morgue at the end of Manhattan’s Charities Pier. There, the remains of more than a hundred young women and two dozen young men were laid out in coffins for their friends and relatives to identify. Small personal items often provided the only clues to the victims’ identity. Hadwin Collection, Kheel Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.