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"The King of Combinations" published in Puck magazine, 1901
"A Horrible Monster" published in The Daily Graphic, 1880
"The Infant Hercules and the Standard Oil Serpents," Puck magazine, 1906. Theodore Roosevelt as an infant Hercules fighting large snakes with the heads of John D. Rockefeller (r), head of the Standard Oil Trust, and Senator Nelson W. Aldrich (l), a Roosevelt rival who resisted Roosevelt's push for railroad rate regulation.
"Next!" Puck magazine, 1904. A Standard Oil tank wraps its tentacles around the Capitol, State House, and major industries, while reaching for the White House.
'O' is the Oil Trust, a modern Bill Sikes
"Before the Trojan horse is admitted the puzzled citizen will have to be shown a little more fully" Chicago Daily News,1909.

Political Cartoons and Standard Oil (gallery)

George Gunton, "The Economic and Social Aspect of Trusts," Political Science Quarterly, 1888.

George Gunton, “The Economic and Social Aspect of Trusts,” 1888.

Testimony of John D. Rockefeller, President of The Standard Oil Company, 1899.

Ida M. Tarbell, "The History of the Standard Oil Company," 1904.

Standard Oil Co. v. United States, 221 U.S. 1 (1910)

David Dietz, "Atomic Energy in the Coming Era," 1945.

Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) of 1978, Fact Sheet.

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