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17 de jul. de 2023 · And as an adult, Tarbell used her pen to fight back. Her 19-part exposé of Standard Oil’s backroom tactics came out between 1902 and 1904 and explained the oil industry’s machinations in easy-to-understand terms. It placed Tarbell among the best-known muckrakers of her day, and helped lead to the breakup of Standard Oil in 1911.
Hace 6 días · In a 12-part series, journalist Ida Tarbell took on one of the most powerful men in the country, John D. Rockefeller. Her work incited the breakup of a major monopoly, and set a new standard in ...
11 de oct. de 2022 · Ida Minerva Tarbell was born in 1857 in Pennsylvania and grew up in the Pennsylvania oil country. She studied biology at Allegheny College and after graduating, became an educator for a few years before returning home and writing for The Chautauquan. After a few years she struck out on her own, moved to Paris where she wrote for several ...
29 de dic. de 2022 · Ida Tarbell. 1905. Library of Congress. By the early 1900s,John D. Rockefeller, Sr. had finished building his oil empire. For over 30 years, he had applied his uncanny shrewdness, ...
Ida Tarbell. 1905. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. The Progressive Era was a time of change. Reform-minded journalists, writers, and photographers, the so-called muckraking journalists like Samuel Hopkins Adams and Ida Tarbell, used their skills to delve into their subjects, and popular magazines of the day documented it all.
29 de ago. de 2021 · Todo nació por las malas decisiones de Rockefeller en las que muchos, incluyendo al padre de Ida, Frank Tarbell, se aferraron a su independencia. Por diferentes presiones, su socio, «arruinado por la compleja situación» se suicidó, y la casa de la familia Tarbell tuvo que ser hipotecada para enfrentar las deudas de la empresa.
19 de mar. de 2021 · Ida M. Tarbell’s name would become synonymous with the term muckraker after publication of her 19-part expose of the business practices of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company that had destroyed her father’s oil business, as well as many other small oil related companies in Pennsylvania’s oil region in the 1870s.
