The New York Atlas was a Sunday newspaper in New York City which was published from 1838 until the 1880s.
| Type | Sunday-only newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | broadsheet |
| Founded | 1838 |
| Ceased publication | 1881(?) |
| Headquarters | Manhattan |
| OCLC number | 9424671 |
The paper was founded as a Sunday-only paper in 1838 by Anson Herrick and Jesse A. Fell as the Sunday Morning Atlas.[1] It began publication on August 12, 1838.[2] Frederick West soon joined as an editor and partner in the paper, Fell departed, and John F. Ropes also joined as a publisher, and the publishers then were known as "Herrick, West, and Ropes".[1][3]
By November 1842, its reported circulation was 4,500, ranking it second (after the New York Herald) among the five New York papers who were publishing on Sunday at the time.[2]
The paper continued operation under Herrick's sons Carleton Moses and Anson after Anson Sr. died in 1868, and ceased publication sometime in the early 1880s.[4][5]
According to Library of Congress holdings information, the paper's title was the Sunday Morning Atlas from 1838-40, The Atlas from 1840-53, and the New-York Atlas from 1853-81.[3]
Notable contributors
edit- P. T. Barnum, who published over 100 letters as a "European correspondent" for the paper, as well as a serialized novel in 1841, The Adventures of an Adventurer[6]
- Ada Clare, whose poetry was first published in the Atlas in 1855.[7]
- Bret Harte, who later became well for his accounts of pioneering life in California, had his first writings published in the Atlas at age 11, a poem called "Autumnal Musings".[8]
- Walt Whitman, whose treatise Manly Health and Training was published in weekly installments starting in September 1858.[9][10]
References
edit- ^ a b Hudson, Frederic. Journalism in the United States, from 1690-1872, p.338 (1873)
- ^ a b Lee, Alfred McClung. The Daily Newspaper in America: The Evolution of a Social Instrument, p.392 (1937)
- ^ a b See:
- "About Sunday morning Atlas. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1838-1840". Library of Congress: Chronicling America.
- "About The Atlas. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1853". Library of Congress: Chronicling America.
- "About The New-York Atlas. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1853-1881". Library of Congress: Chronicling America.
- ^ (9 January 1904) Williams, Henry Llewellyn. The New York Atlas (letter to editor), The New York Times
- ^ About The New-York Atlas. (New York, [N.Y.) 1853-1881], chroniclingamerica.loc.gov, Retrieved May 27, 2011
- ^ Adams, Bluford. E pluribus Barnum: the great showman and the making of U.S. popular culture (1997)
- ^ Parry, Albert. Garretts & Pretenders: A History of Bohemianism in America, p.16-18 (2005)
- ^ Nissen, Alex. Bret Harte: prince and pauper, p.22 (2000)(ISBN 978-1578062539)
- ^ Schuessler, Jennifer. New York Times, April 30, 2016, p. A1
- ^ Turpin, Zachary. “Introduction to Walt Whitman's "Manly Health and Training"”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 33(3/4), 147-183. doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/0737-0679.2205