Identifying the Dead 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. Often small personal items provided the only clues to the victim’s identity.

Hadwin Collection, Kheel Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.