Tarbell, Ida Minerva (1857-1944)

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John Sanborn Phillips to Ida Minerva Tarbell, May 7, 1908 (fragment)

Jane Addams to Ida Minerva Tarbell, October 31, 1908

Jane Addams to Ida Minerva Tarbell, August 23, 1909

Jane Addams to Ida Minerva Tarbell, March 17, 1914

Jane Addams to Ida Minerva Tarbell, January 30, 1917

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Birth Date

1857-11-05

Death Date

1944-01-06

Birthplace

Erie County, Pennsylvania

Biographical Text

Ida Minerva Tarbell was a muckraker journalist during the Progressive Era. She worked for McClure's magazine and is best known for her expose on the Standard Oil monopoly. Also wrote for The Chautauquan, eventually becoming its managing editor. For a time she lived in Paris and studied at the Sorbonne and the College de France while writing for American magazines.

Tarbell died in 1944.

Tarbell and Jane Addams often corresponded with each other over their writings. The pair discussed various social issues of the time as well as personal.

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DeLora, Renee

Lichon, Sara Catherine

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Public domain

Gender

Female

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1908

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“Tarbell, Ida Minerva (1857-1944),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed October 11, 2024, https://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/2167.

Tarbell, Ida Minerva (1857-1944)

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Ida Minerva Tarbell to Jane Addams, April 2, 1908

Ida Minerva Tarbell to Jane Addams, May 7, 1908

Ida Minerva Tarbell to Jane Addams, October 17, 1908

Statement Against Expanding the Navy, January 15, 1909 (summary)

Thirty Reasons Why Our Navy Should Not Be Enlarged, January 15, 1909

Ida Minerva Tarbell to Jane Addams, November 4, 1909

Ida Minerva Tarbell to Jane Addams, November 26, 1912

Ida Minerva Tarbell to Jane Addams, December 3, 1912

Ida Minerva Tarbell to Jane Addams, November 14, 1913

Ida Minerva Tarbell to Jane Addams, January 26, 1917

John Sanborn Phillips to Ida Minerva Tarbell, May 7, 1908 (fragment)

Jane Addams to Ida Minerva Tarbell, October 31, 1908

Jane Addams to Ida Minerva Tarbell, August 23, 1909

Jane Addams to Ida Minerva Tarbell, March 17, 1914

Jane Addams to Ida Minerva Tarbell, January 30, 1917

Jenkin Lloyd Jones to Jane Addams, June 24, 1908

Jane Addams to William Kent, June 26, 1909

John Sanborn Phillips to Jane Addams, July 10, 1909

John Sanborn Phillips to Jane Addams, October 29, 1909

Jane Addams to George Platt Brett Sr., November 6, 1909

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, January 4, 1911

Sarah Forester Hitchcock to Jane Addams, May 21, 1912

Social Justice through National Action, February 12, 1914

Lawrence F. Abbott to Jane Addams, February 27, 1914

Jane Addams to Ray Stannard Baker, March 26, 1915

Woodrow Wilson to Jane Addams, December 28, 1916

General Committee on the Limitation of Armament Declaration and Membership, November 1921

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