| Title: |
Gert Mendelsohn
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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| Collection: |
Labor History: Garment Workers
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| Description: |
Gert Mendelsohn worked at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company at the time of the fire in 1911. She had been assigned to an annex building 2 blocks from the main plant.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Speaker: |
Mendelsohn, Gert, 1895(?)-
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1895
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Russia; Asia
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Activist; Factory employee; Homemaker
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Historical events discussed: |
Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire, 1911
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| Locations discussed: |
New York; New York, NY; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Clothing trade; Clothing workers--Labor unions; Factories; Labor unions; Labor unions--Organizing; Labor unions--Political activity; New York; New York, NY; North America; Oral history; Radicalism--United States; Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire, 1911; United States; Work environment
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| ASP release: |
2007-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0035178-38745
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