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Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5, 1857 – January 6, 1944) was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers and reformers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was a pioneer of investigative journalism .
Pen and Brush Club, 10th Street in Manhattan by Jessie Tarbox Beals c. 1923. Pen and Brush Club (also known as Pen + Brush) is an international organization of professional women, writers and artists. [1] Organized in 1897, the women formed themselves into a club of which the object was to be recreation and the promotion of social dialogue.
Of his articles, the most significant to the development of muckraking journalism was "The Shame of Minneapolis," which was published in the January 1903 issue of McClure’s alongside a section from Tarbell's The History of the Standard Oil Company and Ray Stannard Baker's "The Right to Work: The Story of the Non-Striking Miners". [42]
Ida Tarbell wrote a series of articles against Standard Oil, which was perceived to be a monopoly. This affected both the government and the public reformers. Attacks by Tarbell and others helped pave the way for public acceptance of the breakup of the company by the Supreme Court in 1911. [219]
2006-01-07 02:24 Daderot 558×752× (43474 bytes) Ida Tarbell - photograph taken between 1910 and 1930. This image is cropped and digitally enhanced from the Library of Congress online collection. The image appears to be in the public domain; see catalog information below. TITLE: [Ida Tarbell, half-len
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The Ida Tarbell House is a historic house at 320 Valley Road in Easton, Connecticut. A simple farmhouse dubbed "Twin Oaks", it was the home of muckraking journalist Ida Tarbell (1857-1944) from 1906 until her death. She purchased the property with proceeds from her two-volume book on the Standard Oil Company.