New York Atlas

New York Atlas
TypeSunday-only newspaper
Formatbroadsheet
Founded1838
Ceased publication1881(?)
HeadquartersManhattan
OCLC number9424671
For the PLL lacrosse team, see New York Atlas (lacrosse).

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]

  1. ^ a b Hudson, Frederic. Journalism in the United States, from 1690-1872, p.338 (1873)
  2. ^ a b Lee, Alfred McClung. The Daily Newspaper in America: The Evolution of a Social Instrument, p.392 (1937)
  3. ^ 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.
  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