Robber baron (industrialist)
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Robber baron is a term first applied by 19th century muckrakers and others as social criticism to certain wealthy, powerful, and unethical 19th-century American businessmen. The term appeared in that
1904 depiction of an acquisitive and manipulative Standard Oil (founded by John D. Rockefeller) as an all-powerful octopus
1901 US cartoon from Puck depicting John D. Rockefeller as a business despot
Leland Stanford
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Amasa Leland Stanford was an American attorney, industrialist, philanthropist, and Republican Party politician from Watervliet, New York. He served as the eighth governor of California from 1862 to 18
Robber baron (industrialist)
…Barons" as the nickname for their sports teams. However, school administrators disallowed it, saying it was disrespectful to the school's founder, Leland Stanford. In academia, the education division of the National Endowment for the Humanities has prepared a lesson plan for schools asking whether "robber baron…
Stanford in 1890
Pacific Railroad Bond, City, and County of San Francisco, 1865
Leland Stanford and the officers of the CPRR in 1870
Muybridge's The Horse in Motion, 1878