New York Dispatch (New York [N.Y.])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,263 issues from 1863 to 1887, published in New York, New York, digitised for Chronicling America.
Founded in December of 1845 by Amor J. Williamson and William Burns, the New York City Sunday Dispatch ran from 1845-1854, later becoming the New-York Dispatch from 1854-1861, then Sunday Dispatch from 1861-1863, and finally the New York Dispatch from 1863 onwards. The Dispatch was part of “a new class of newspapers—partly literary, partly gossiping, partly silly … the Sunday Newspaper press” as defined by The New York Herald on July 29, 1844. Due to taboos around Sunday activities, newspapers publishing on Sundays only began to thrive in New York City in the 1840s. While its circulation figures were hotly contested in its early years, the Dispatch attested that it had an average issue circulation of 28,442 in 1855, giving it the third highest per-issue circulation in New York City. (In that year, the major New York City newspapers competed for a Post Office contract for the “advertisement of Uncalled-for Letters” and had to provide proof of circulation. This competition was a mismatch as the Sunday Dispatch was a weekly, and the three other competing newspapers were dailies: The Sun, The New York Herald, and the New York Daily Times. The contract was ultimately awarded to The New York Herald. Its subscriber base never really grew, however, and its circulation was estimated in the 20-25,000 range from 1869 through the 1880s.
As a literary paper, the Dispatch included arts criticism, fiction, and poetry. During the late 1840s to early 1850s, Walt Whitman published several…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- New York, New York, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress