American Decades
The History of the Standard Oil Company
Nonfiction work
By: Ida M. Tarbell
Date: 1904
Source: Tarbell, Ida M. The History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. 2. New York: McClure, Phillips, 1904, 267–269, 274–277, 287–288, 292. Available online at http://www.history.rochester.edu/fuels/tarbell/main.htm; website home page http://www.history.rochester.edu (accessed January 6, 2003).
About the Author: Ida M. Tarbell (1857–1944) was a prominent investigative journalist who achieved her greatest fame as the author of The History of the Standard Oil Company. Originally published as a series of articles in McClure's Magazine beginning in November 1902, the book exposed Standard Oil's sometimes ruthless business practices. In 1906, Tarbell became co-owner of American Magazine....
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1900's Business and the Economy Primary Sources
- First Annual Report of the United States Steel Corporation for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 1902
- Report to the President on the Anthracite Coal Strike of May–October, 1902
- The History of the Standard Oil Company
- Manifesto of the Industrial Workers of the World
- Conditions in Chicago Stock Yards: Message from the President of the United States
- Court Injunctions and Labor Unions
- The Western Federation of Miners on the Mesabi Range: An Address at a Social Entertainment of Hibbing Mine Workers
- Rate Wars in the Railroad Industry
- Explosion at Darr Mine
- Ford Price List of Parts for Models "N," "R," "S" and "S" Roadster
- "A Protective vs. a Competitive Tariff"
- Shop Management
- Thirteenth Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1910, Volume VIII, Manufactures: 1909
- Bill Haywood's Book
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
