IDA TARBELL_PORTRAIT OF A MUCKRAKER

by Kathleen Brady

  30. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to W. O. Inglis, February 19, 1918, Rockefeller Family Archives.

  31. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to George E. Vincent, May 9, 1924, and letters in the Rockefeller Family Archives.

  32. IMT to Rutger Bleeker Jewett, January 31, 1924, Allegheny.

  33. IMT to JSP, October 20, 1919, Allegheny.

  34. Benjamin Stolberg, “St. Elbert of the Heavenly Trust,” The Nation, April 14, 1926, p. 414.

  35. W. O. Inglis to Nestor W. Davis, November 16, 1925, Rockefeller Family Archives.

  36. Benjamin Thomas, Portrait for Posterity (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1947), p. 187; IMT to Carl Sandburg, November 7, 1925, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

  37. Thomas, Portrait, p. 284.

  38. IMT to R. C. Sturgis, December 19, 1939, Allegheny; VR to APM, 1929 or 1934, Little Chapel.

  39. IMT to APM, January 13, 1929, Allegheny.

  40. VR to APM, n.d., Little Chapel.

  41. Ada McCormick manuscript, Little Chapel.

  42. IMT to JSP, April 26, 1926, Smith College.

  43. All Day’s, p. 378.

  44. Draft of the Mussolini manuscript, Allegheny.

  45. Peter Lyon, Success Story: The Life and Times of S. S. McClure (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1963), p. 401.

  46. Lincoln Steffens, The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1931), vol. II, p. 813.

  47. VR to APM, March 2, 1930, Allegheny.

  48. Ibid.

  49. IMT to John B. Andrews, March 9, 1938; VR to APM, undated, Allegheny.

  50. Tarbell, “Why Smith Gets My Vote,” Collier’s, September 15, 1928, p. 8.

  51. IMT to William C. Chenery, November 12, 1928, Allegheny.

  12. AT REST

  1. IMT to APM, September 14, 1928, Allegheny College.

  2. IMT to APM, January 9, 1929, Allegheny.

  3. IMT to SAT, October 23, 1929, Allegheny.

  4. Tucson Dialogues, March 20, 1931, Little Chapel.

  5. Patricia Paylore to author, March 1980.

  6. Tucson Dialogues, February 20, 1921, Little Chapel.

  7. Ibid.

  8. McCormick notes, Allegheny.

  9. McCormick ledgers, Little Chapel.

  10. Dialogue with IMT, 1936, Allegheny.

  11. IMT to VR, October 1935, Allegheny.

  12. IMT to VR, December 9, 1935, Allegheny.

  13. APM to Dorothy Canfield, October 24, 1936, Allegheny.

  14. Atlantic Monthly correspondence, Allegheny.

  15. IMT to VR, November 6, 1937, Allegheny.

  16. Titusville Herald, January 26, 1939.

  17. VR to APM, December 24 [no year], Little Chapel.

  18. IMT to APM, Little Chapel.

  19. IMT to John H. Kellogg, October 28, 1939, Michigan Historical Collection, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan; IMT to VR, January 8, 1940, Allegheny.

  20. IMT to JSP, August [no year], Smith College.

  21. IMT to Alice Hegan Rice, December 11, 1940, Rice Collection, Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University.

  22. IMT to JSP, August [no year], Smith College.

  23. IMT to Mollie Best, December 17, 1941, family letters, collection of Ella Tarbell Price.

  24. The draft of Life After Eighty, Collection of Ella Tarbell Price.

  Bibliography

  Selected Works of Ida Tarbell

  BOOKS

  Madame Roland. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1895.

  The History of the Standard Oil Company. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan Co., 1904.

  He Knew Lincoln. New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1909.

  The Tariff in Our Times. New York: Macmillan Co., 1911.

  The Business of Being a Woman. New York: Macmillan Co., 1914.

  Peacemakers—Blessed and Otherwise. New York: Macmillan Co., 1919.

  The Rising of the Tide. New York: Macmillan Co., 1919.

  In the Footsteps of the Lincolns. New York: Macmillan Co., 1924.

  The Life of Elbert H. Gary. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1925.

  Owen D. Young: A New Type of Industrial Leader. New York: Macmillan Co., 1932.

  The Nationalizing of Business, 1878–1898. New York: Macmillan Co., 1936.

  All in the Day’s Work. New York: Macmillan Co., 1939.

  ARTICLES

  “Arts and Industries of Cincinnati,” The Chautauquan, November 1886, pp. 160–62.

  “Women as Inventors,” The Chautauquan, March 1887, pp. 355–57.

  “Women in Journalism,” The Chautauquan, April 1887, pp. 393–95.

  “The Queen of the Gironde,” The Chautauquan, March 1891, pp. 756–61.

  “France Adorée,” Scribner’s, May 1892, p. 643.

  “Pasteur at Home,” McClure’s Magazine, September 1893, pp. 327–40.

  “In the Streets of Paris,” New England Magazine, November 1893, pp. 259–64.

  “Madame Roland,” Scribner’s, November 1893, pp. 561–78.

  “A Paris Press Woman,” Boston Transcript, December 16, 1893.

  “The Principles and Pastimes of the French Salon,” The Chautauquan, February 1894.

  “The Compatriot,” New England Magazine, September 1894, p. 83.

  “Napoleon Bonaparte,” McClure’s Magazine, November 1894 to April 1895.

  “Abraham Lincoln,” McClure’s Magazine, November 1895 to November 1896.

  “Charm of Paris,” Scribner’s, April 1900, pp. 387–404.

  “The History of the Standard Oil Company,” McClure’s Magazine, November 1902 to July 1903; December 1903 to October 1904.

  “John D. Rockefeller,” McClure’s Magazine, July and August 1905.

  “Kansas and the Standard Oil Company,” McClure’s Magazine, September and October 1905.

  “Commercial Machiavellianism,” McClure’s Magazine, March 1906, pp. 453–63.

  “Tariff in Our Times,” The American Magazine, December 1906, January 1907, March 1907 to June 1907.

  “He Knew Lincoln,” The American Magazine, February 1907, pp. 2–13.

  “Roosevelt vs. Rockefeller,” The American Magazine, December 1907 to February 1908.

  “Where Every Penny Counts,” The American Magazine, March 1909, pp. 437–49.

  “Juggling with the Tariff,” The American Magazine, April 1909, pp. 578–86.

  “Where the Shoe Is Pinched,” The American Magazine, June 1909, pp. 155–59.

  “American Woman,” The American Magazine, November 1909 to May 1910.

  “The Mysteries and Cruelties of the Tariff,” The American Magazine, October 1910 to January 1911; May 1911.

  “Testing the Tariff by Moral Effects,” The American Magazine, June 1911, pp. 186–93.

  “Uneasy Woman,” The American Magazine, January 1912, pp. 259–62.

  “Making a Man of Herself,” The American Magazine, February 1912, pp. 427–30.

  “Business of Being a Woman,” The American Magazine, March 1912, pp. 563–68.

  “Homeless Daughters,” The American Magazine, April 1912, pp. 563–68.

  “Irresponsible Woman and the Friendless Child,” The American Magazine, May 1912, pp. 49–53.

  “Woman and Democracy,” The American Magazine, June 1912, pp. 217–87.

  “The Hunt for a Money Trust,” The American Magazine, May 1913 to July 1913.

  “Flying—A Dream Come True,” The American Magazine, November 1913, pp. 65–66.

  “The Golden Rule in Business,” The American Magazine, October 1914 to September 1915.

  “Twenty-Cent Dinner,” Woman’s Home Companion, May 1915, p. 9.

  “Talk with the President of the United States,” Collier’s, October 18, 1916, pp. 5–6.

  “What Shall We Do for Maids?” Good Housekeeping, November 1917, pp. 22–23.

  “The French Woman and Her New World,” Red Cross Magazine, June 1919 to August 1919.

  “The Homing Instinct of Woman,” Red Cross Magazine,
September 1919.

  “That Brave Northwest,” Red Cross Magazine, December 1919.

  “Old Times at Allegheny,” The Allegheny Literary Monthly, October 1922, pp. 4–7.

  “Is the Standard Oil Crumbling?” The New Republic, November 14, 1923, pp. 300–301.

  “Florida—And Then What?” McCall’s, May to August, 1926.

  “The Greatest Story in the World Today,” McCall’s, November 1926 to February 1927.

  “Why Smith Gets My Vote,” Collier’s, September 13, 1928, pp. 8–9.

  “Women as Honest Grafters,” Century, July 1929, pp. 302–10.

  “As Ida Tarbell Looks at Prohibition,” Delineator, October 1930, p. 17.

  “Arizona Trails,” Delineator, March 1932, p. 12.

  “Old Sewing Room,” North American Review, March 1938, pp. 154–58.

  Selected Works for Further Reference

  BOOKS

  Abbott, John S. C. Marie Jeanne Roland de la Platière. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850.

  Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull House. New York: New American Library, 1961.

  Allen, Frederick Lewis. Only Yesterday. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931.

  —. Paul Revere Reynolds. Privately printed, 1944.

  Atkinson, John. The Class Leader. New York: Nelson & Phillips, 1875.

  Ayer, N. W., & Son’s. American Newspaper Annual. Philadelphia: N. W. Ayer & Son, 1894–1908.

  Baker, Osman C. A Guide-book in the Administration of the Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church. New York: Carlton & Phillips, 1855.

  Baker, Ray Stannard. American Chronicle. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1945.

  Barrus, Clara. The Life and Letters of John Burroughs. New York: Russell & Russell, 1968.

  Bates, J. Leonard. The Origins of Teapot Dome. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1963.

  Bates, Samuel P. Our Country and Its People. Crawford County, Pennsylvania: W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899.

  Bennett, Arnold. The Journal. New York: Viking Co. Vol. II, 1932–1933.

  Bertaut, Jules. Paris 1870–1935. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1936.

  Bishop, John Bucklin. Theodore Roosevelt and His Times. 2 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920.

  Blind, Mathilde. Madame Roland. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886.

  Brady, Curtis F. “The High Cost of Impatience.” Manuscript in the Lilly Library, Indiana University.

  Bruce, Robert V. Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1973.

  Burgess, Gelett, ed. My Maiden Effort. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921.

  Burke’s Royal Families of the World. Vol. II. London: Burke’s Peerage Ltd., 1980.

  Chamberlain, John. Farewell to Reform. New York: Liveright, 1932.

  Clark, John D. Federal Trust Policy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1931.

  Colton, Joseph H. Common School Geography. New York: Shelton & Co., 1874.

  Committee on U.S. Public Lands and Surveys, United States Senate. Leases Upon Naval Oil Reserves. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1923, 1924.

  Cowles, Anna Roosevelt. Letters from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1924.

  Croly, Herbert David. Mark Alonzo Hanna. New York: Macmillan Co., 1912.

  De Roux, Paul, ed. Mémoires de Madame Roland. Paris: Mercure de France, 1966.

  The Derrick’s Handbook of Petroleum. 2 vols. Oil City, Pa: Derrick Publishing Co., 1898.

  Dunn, Andrew Wallace. Gridiron Nights. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1915.

  Eastman, Max. Enjoyment of Living. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948.

  Edel, Leon. Henry James: The Master 1901–1916. New York: Harper & Row, 1974.

  Ellis, Elmer. Mr. Dooley’s America: A Life of Finley Peter Dunne. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941.

  Ely, Richard T. Ground Under Our Feet. New York: Macmillan Co., 1938.

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  Flexner, Eleanor. Century of Struggle. New York: Atheneum, 1973.

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  Flynn, John T. God’s Gold. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1932.

  Fosdick, Raymond B. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.: A Portrait. New York: Harper & Bros., 1956.

  Fuess, Claude Moore. Carl Schurz, Reformer. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1932.

  Giddens, Paul. The Early Days of Oil. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1948.

  Goldman, Eric F. Rendezvous with Destiny. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.

  Graham, Jane Kirkland. Viola, The Duchess of New Dorp. Danville, Illinois Printing Co., 1955.

  Green, Constance McLaughlin. Washington: Capital City. 2 vols. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1963.

  Greene, Theodore P. America’s Heroes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

  Haller, John S., Jr., and Haller, Robin M. The Physician and Sexuality in Victorian America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1974.

  Hapgood, Hutchins. Victorian in the Modern World. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1939.

  Hawke, David Freeman. John D.: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers. New York: Harper & Row, 1980.

  Hays, Samuel P. The Response to Industrialism, 1885–1914. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1957.

  Henry, J. T. The Early and Later History of Petroleum. Philadelphia: Jas. B. Rodgers, Printers, 1873.

  Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955.

  Hoover, Herbert. The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover. New York: Macmillan Co., 1952.

  Howe, Frederic Clemson. The Confessions of a Reformer. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925.

  Huisman, Phillippe. Lautrec by Lautrec. New York: Viking Press, 1964.

  Hurlbut, Jesse. The Story of Chautauqua. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1921.

  Inglis, William O. “The Inglis Papers.” Manuscript in the Rockefeller Family Collections, 1918–1919.

  Israel, Fred L., ed. The State of the Union Messages of the Presidents, 1790–1966. New York: Crown Publishers, 1965.

  James, Henry. The American Scene. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1968.

  Johnson, Charles Albert. The Frontier Camp Meeting. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1955.

  Jordan, David Starr. The Days of a Man. Yonkers-on-Hudson, N.Y.: World Book Co., 1922.

  Josephson, Matthew. The Robber Barons. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1934.

  Kaplan, Justin. Lincoln Steffens. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974.

  King’s Handbook of New York City. Boston: Moses King, 1892.

  Lasch, Christopher. The New Radicalism in America, 1889–1963. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.

  Leary, Lewis, ed. Mark Twain’s Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969.

  Lodge, Henry Cabot, ed. Selections from the Correspondence of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge, 1884–1918. 2 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925.

  Lundberg, Ferdinand. The Rockefeller Syndrome. Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart, 1975.

  Lyon, Peter. Success Story: The Life and Times of S. S. McClure. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1963.

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  Mott, Frank Luther. A History of American Magazines. 5 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1938–1968.

  Nevins, Allan. Study in Power: John D. Rockefeller. 2 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953.

  Noggle, Burl. Teapot Dome Oil and Politics in the 1920s. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1962.

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  _______. “A Legacy to Youth.” Manuscript, 1929.

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  Rockefeller, John D. Random Reminiscences of Men and Events. London: William Heinemann, 1909.

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  Scudder, Moses Lewis. American Methodism. Hartford, Conn.: S. S. Scranton & Co., 1867.

  Sedgwick, Ellery. The Happy Profession. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1946.