New York Atlas

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New York Atlas

Type	Sunday-only newspaper
Format	broadsheet
Founded	1838
Ceased publication	1881(?)
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]

Notable contributors

• 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

1. Hudson, Frederic. Journalism in the United States, from 1690-1872, p.338 (1873)
2. Lee, Alfred McClung. The Daily Newspaper in America: The Evolution of a Social Instrument, p.392 (1937)
3. 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.
4. (9 January 1904) Williams, Henry Llewellyn. The New York Atlas (letter to editor), The New York Times
5. About The New-York Atlas. (New York, [N.Y.]) 1853-1881, chroniclingamerica.loc.gov, Retrieved May 27, 2011
6. Adams, Bluford. E pluribus Barnum: the great showman and the making of U.S. popular culture (1997)
7. Parry, Albert. Garretts & Pretenders: A History of Bohemianism in America, p.16-18 (2005)
8. Nissen, Alex. Bret Harte: prince and pauper, p.22 (2000)( ISBN   978-1578062539)
9. Schuessler, Jennifer. New York Times, April 30, 2016, p. A1
10. 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