New York Atlas

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New York Atlas
TypeSunday-only newspaper
Format broadsheet
Founded1838
Ceased publication1881(?)
Headquarters Manhattan
OCLC number 9424671

The New York Atlas was a Sunday newspaper in New York City which was published from 1838 until the 1880s.

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]

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  2. 1 2 Lee, Alfred McClung. The Daily Newspaper in America: The Evolution of a Social Instrument, p.392 (1937)
  3. 1 2 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.
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  5. About The New-York Atlas. (New York, [N.Y.) 1853-1881], chroniclingamerica.loc.gov, Retrieved May 27, 2011
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