Sheet music became commonplace in homes starting about 1840. Postcards came along some years later, but when the songwriters put their pens to a score postcards and music were a perfect match.
It may be that the loss of 146 lives was simply too tragic for postcards. But we have gathered a cabinet-card portrait, a 1980s first day cover, a modern rack card and a hook-and-ladder postcard from 1907 that may well be a fair representation of the Triangle Waist Company fire.