Transcripts of interviews with twelve leaders and participants in the suffrage movement are available from this site as part of the Suffragist Oral History Project. The site provides students with first hand accounts of the emotions and issues surrounding suffrage, as well as a glimpse at the potential of oral history. Newspaper articles from the New York Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune detail the factual events of the fire, and follow up with stories of a nation trying to assign blame and survivors trying to cope. Photographs depict the horror of the fire and the scenes of the carnage it created. Political cartoons show that in the public's viewpoint, blame was certainly assigned to the factory owners.
Students can even read a play that was originally put out over the radio.
Letters, songs, and book excerpts are also available on this site. This is an excellent resource for students trying to understand and imagine the conditions faced by young men and women working in factories in the early twentieth century. This American Memory site includes portraits of prominent suffragists, photographs of suffragist parades, and political cartoons. The site is a partner to the National American Woman Suffrage Association page. The Westinghouse Company, supposedly one of the most modern and progressive of its era, is the subject of this site, sponsored by the Library of Congress.