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Ida Tarbell: Media

American journalist

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Ida Tarbell at work
Journalist Ida Tarbell shown working in 1921. Her meticulous, diligent reporting...
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Seminal work
Ida M. Tarbell's The History of the Standard Oil Company is considered one...
From The History of the Standard Oil Company by Ida M. Tarbell, 1904
Lincoln biographer
Ida Tarbell wrote extensively about Abraham Lincoln, including in The American...
From The American Magazine, February 1909.
Ida Tarbell, 1904
Journalist Ida Tarbell was one of several ā€œmuckrakersā€ who sharply criticized American...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; (neg. no. LC-USZ62-68572)