The ''Boston Atlas'' (1832–1857) newspaper of
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
,
, was published in daily and semi-weekly editions in the mid-19th century. John H. Eastburn established the paper in 1832.
Editors included
Richard Hildreth
Richard Hildreth (June 28, 1807 – July 11, 1865), was an American journalist, author and historian. He is best known for writing his six-volume ''History of the United States of America'' covering 1497–1821 and published 1840-1853. Historian ...
, Richard Haughton, William Hayden,
Thomas M. Brewer, William Schouler, R. Carter.
Among the contributors:
Joseph Carter Abbott
Joseph Carter Abbott (July 15, 1825October 8, 1881) was a Union Army colonel during the American Civil War who was awarded the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers and a Republican United States Senator from the state of North Carolin ...
,
Benjamin Perley Poore
Benjamin Perley Poore (November 2, 1820 – May 30, 1887) was a prominent American newspaper correspondent, editor, and author in the mid-19th century. One of the most popular and prolific journalists of his era, he was an active partisan for the ...
,
Samuel F. Tappan
Samuel Forster Tappan (June 29, 1831 – January 6, 1913) was an American journalist, military officer, abolitionist and a Native American rights activist. Appointed as a member of the Indian Peace Commission in 1867 to reach peace with the P ...
. Its office stood at no.18
State Street and later in the
Old State House. The paper supported the
Whig Party.
Its Democratic rival, with which it sparred constantly, was ''
The Boston Post
''The Boston Post'' was a daily newspaper in New England for over a hundred years before it folded in 1956. The ''Post'' was founded in November 1831 by two prominent Boston businessmen, Charles G. Greene and William Beals.
Edwin Grozier bough ...
''.
In 1857 the ''
Boston Traveller
The ''Boston Evening Traveller'' (1845–1967) was a newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts. It was a daily newspaper, with weekly and semi-weekly editions under a variety of ''Traveller'' titles. It was absorbed by the ''Boston Herald'' i ...
'' absorbed ''The Atlas.''
Variant titles
References
Images
Image:1832 BostonDailyAtlas Sept28.png, ''Boston Daily Atlas,'' 1832
Image:1840 StateSt Boston USA.png, Daily Atlas office, State Street, ca.1840s
Image:1845 BostonAtlas portrait MFABoston.png, Portrait of a Boston Atlas reader, 1845, by an unidentified artist (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
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