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Limited Edition Triangle Shirtwaist Company, from the series Buildings of Disaster Byom Partners 1998-2008. bonded nickel. One of these is in the collection of SFMoma
This is from the Building of Disaster Series by Constantin and Laurene Leon Boym. Of their Buildings of Disaster series, Constantin Boym writes: “Some of these buildings may have been prized architectural landmarks, other – nondescript anonymous structures. But disaster changes everything. The images of exploded buildings make a different, populist history of architecture, one based on people’s emotional involvement rather than on scholarly appreciation.” Boym Partners first conceived of the idea in 1997 as Souvenirs for the End of the Century. The first edition was released in 1998 and it was controversial but well-received. When the World Trade Center fell on September 11, 2001, the Boym Partners re-released their World Trade Center miniature as a fundraiser and they later added The September 11th Memorial Set featuring the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on Saturday, March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers – 123 women and girls and 23 men – who died from the fire, smoke inhalation, or falling or jumping to their deaths. Most of the victims were recent Italian or Jewish immigrant women and girls aged 14 to 23; of the victims whose ages are known, the oldest victim was 43-year-old Providenza Panno, and the youngest were 14-year-olds Kate Leone and Rosaria "Sara" Maltese.
The factory was located on the 8th, 9th, and 10th floors of the Asch Building, which had been built in 1901. Later renamed the "Brown Building", it still stands at 23–29 Washington Place near Washington Square Park, on the New York University (NYU) campus. The building has been designated a National Historic Landmark and a New York City landmark.
The bottom base of the replica reads "TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST COMPANY MARCH 25, 1911."
At the bottom of the replica a sticker it reads
"Buildings of Disaster"
"Souvenirs for the End of Century"
"by Boym Design Studio"
"1998/1999/2000"
Above the sticker "No. 50" is handwritten .
May 23, 2022
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