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American Experience: The Rockefellers - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/
This companion site to the PBS television program explores the story of John D. Rockefeller and of the heirs to his fortune. Includes program synopsis, transcript, documents, bibliography, and teachers' guide. |
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John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company - http://www.micheloud.com/FXM/SO/
Discusses Rockefeller's life, the oil industry of his era, the growth of Standard Oil, and Rockefeller's business practices. By Francois Micheloud. Includes photos, bibliography, and French version of text. |
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History of the Standard Oil Company - http://www.history.rochester.edu/fuels/tarbell/MAIN.HTM
Journalist Ida Tarbell's most famous work was this muckraking account of Rockefeller's oil empire, published in 1904. Full-text reprint of the book. |
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John Singer Sargent's John D. Rockefeller Sr. - http://www.jssgallery.org/Paintings/John_D_Rockefeller_Sr.htm
Two portraits of Rockefeller painted by Sargent in 1917. |
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Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: Rockefeller, John D. - http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=RJD
Rockefeller began his career in Cleveland. This biographical article includes links to related entries in the encyclopedia. |
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On This Day: Obituary - http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0708.html
Rockefeller's obituary from the New York Times, 1937. |
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Rockefeller and Standard Oil, Rags to Riches - http://www.bilderberg.org/whatafel.htm
Essay takes a critical view of Rockefeller's "greed, not philanthropy." Also includes the final chapter of Ida Tarbell's book, The History of the Standard Oil Company. |
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Why a University for Chicago and Not Cleveland? - http://www.rockefeller.edu/archive.ctr/rro/jdrcleve.pdf
This paper discusses Rockefeller's early philanthropy, particularly the question of why he helped endow the University of Chicago but not a university for Cleveland, the city where he got his start. Author: Kenneth W. Rose, Rockefeller Archive Center. |
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John D. Rockefeller and Civic Affairs in Cleveland - http://www.rockarch.org/publications/resrep/rr2000.pdf
Discusses Rockefeller's support for civic and charitable organizations in the city where he spent part of his boyhood. Article by Paul Hillmer from the Spring 2000 issue of Research Reports from the Rockefeller Archive Center. |