The ''New York Atlas'' was a Sunday newspaper in

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which was published from 1838 until the 1880s. The paper was founded as a Sunday-only paper in 1838 by

Anson Herrick Anson Herrick (January 21, 1812 – February 6, 1868) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from New York during the latter half of the American Civil War. A newspaperman by trade, he served a single term in Unite ...

and Jesse A. Fell as the ''Sunday Morning Atlas''. Hudson, Frederic
Journalism in the United States, from 1690-1872
p.338 (1873) It began publication on August 12, 1838. Lee, Alfred McClung
The Daily Newspaper in America: The Evolution of a Social Instrument
p.392 (1937) 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". By November 1842, its reported circulation was 4,500, ranking it second (after the ''

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'') among the five New York papers who were publishing on Sunday at the time. 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.(9 January 1904) Williams, Henry Llewellyn
The New York Atlas (letter to editor)
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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.See: * * *

Notable contributors

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, 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''Adams, Bluford
E pluribus Barnum: the great showman and the making of U.S. popular culture
(1997) *

Ada Clare Ada Clare ( pen names, Clare and Ada Clare; July 1834 – March 4, 1874) was an American actress and writer.Kenneth T. Jackson: ''The Encyclopedia of New York City'': The New York Historical Society; Yale University Press; 1995. P. 238. Life a ...

, whose poetry was first published in the ''Atlas'' in 1855.Parry, Albert
Garretts & Pretenders: A History of Bohemianism in America
p.16-18 (2005) *

Bret Harte Bret Harte (; born Francis Brett Hart; August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a caree ...

, 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".Nissen, Alex
Bret Harte: prince and pauper
p.22 (2000)() *

Walt Whitman Walter Whitman (; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among t ...

, whose treatise ''Manly Health and Training'' was published in weekly installments starting in September 1858.Turpin, Zachary
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
vol. 33, No. 3.

References

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