Primary Sources & Historial Fiction

 Primary Sources I used in a recent activity introducing historical fiction titles:

• Steerage Passengers Taking Life Easy on an Ocean Liner
  "Immigrants. Open deck with bridge in background 3 funnels in center, immigrants walking and seated at sides of image." MARC
  tags: inquiry_book_talk primarysources
• [Addie Card], anaemic little spinner in North Pownal Cotton Mill. See photo No. 1056. Location: Vermont.
  MARC Record
  tags: inquiry_book_talk primarysources
• Cornell University - ILR School - The Triangle Factory Fire - Photos and Illustrations
  "“The Locked Door!” An editorial cartoon shows women surrounded in smoke and flames pounding their fists on the locked factory door. Photographer: Artist Robert Carter, 1911 "
  tags: primarysources triangle_factory inquiry_book_talk triangle
• Cornell University - ILR School - The Triangle Factory Fire - Photos and Illustrations
  "Fire fighters arrived at the Asch Building soon after the alarm was sounded but ladders only reached the sixth floor and the high pressure pumps of the day could not raise the water pressure needed to extinguish the flames on the highest floors of the ten-story building. In this fireproof factory, 146 young men, women, and children lost their lives, and many others were seriously injured. Photographer: unknown, March 25, 1911 Kheel Center image identifier: 5780Pb39f15d Image 6 of 20 "
  tags: triangle_factory LOC primarysources inquiry_book_talk
• [Horse-drawn fire engines in street, on their way to the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire, New York City]
  MARC record
  tags: new york city triangle_fire inquiry_book_talk LOC
• The Chinese invasion
  MARC record
  tags: LOC Primary sources inquiry_book_talk

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