When Isaac Harris and Max Blanck met in New York City in their twenties, they shared a common story. Born in Russia, both men had immigrated to the United States in the early 1890s, and ...

In a crowded New York City courtroom 107 years ago this month, two wealthy immigrant entrepreneurs, Isaac Harris and Max Blanck, stood trial on a single count of manslaughter. Earlier that year ...

It’s featured on Sundays. Triangle Waist Co.’s owners, Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, were at the peak of their success as shirtwaist manufacturers when a fire broke out on March 25, 1911 at ...

(AP) In a crowded New York City courtroom 107 years ago this month, two wealthy immigrant entrepreneurs, Isaac Harris and Max Blanck, stood trial on a single count of manslaughter. Earlier that ...

The American labor movement as we know it today in fact rose from the ashes of a New York City garment factory fire that killed 146 workers more than a century ago. The Asche building at 23 ...

The factory was owned by Isaac Harris and Max Blanck, Russian Jewish immigrants known as the “Shirtwaist Kings.” They founded the Triangle Waist Company in 1900, producing ready-to-wear ...

By the turn of the century, Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Co., with operations in New York and Philadelphia, were ”the shirtwaist kings.” Their biggest factory ...

Simply put, the owners of the Triangle Waist Company, the villains of this story, Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, dubbed New York’s “shirtwaist kings,” were Eastern European Jews like so many ...

When Isaac Harris and Max Blanck met in New York City in their twenties, they shared a common story. Born in Russia, both men had immigrated to the United States in the early 1890s, and ...