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1834 (40 ISSUES) BOUND THE NEW SUN NEWSPAPERS ~ NEW YORK ~ CRIME REPORTS!
$ 79.2
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My wife and I have decided it was time to sell off our very large collection of Historical Newspapers.Some we will sell individually and some in lots. Most of these lots are NOT RESEARCHED! I have been in possession of most of these Newspapers for over 30 years or more!
I this would be a great opportunity to add to any collection and I will be doing this until I exhaust my inventory which will take me some time, so PLEASE CHECK BACK!
UP FOR AUCTION : A WONDERFUL FIND. SCARCE TITLE THE SUN ~ 40 CONSECUTIVE COMPLETE NEWSPAPERS STILL BOUND WITH NO BOARDS.
WONDERFUL FIND. GOOD CONDITION 10”x12” PUBLICATIONS
The New York Sun debuted on September 3, 1833, becoming the first successful penny daily, popular with the city’s less affluent, working classes. Its publisher, Benjamin H. Day, emphasized local events, police court reports, and sports in his four-page morning newspaper. Advertisements, notably help-wanted ads, were plentiful. By 1834, the Sun had the largest circulation in the United States. Its rising popularity was attributed to its readers’ passion for the Sun's sensational and sometimes fabricated stories and the paper’s exaggerated coverage of sundry scandals. Its success was also the result of the efforts of the city’s ubiquitous newsboys, who the innovative Day had hired to hawk the paper. The Sun added a Saturday edition in 1836. A number of weekly and semiweekly titles were also published, such as the Weekly Sun (1851-69), which shares the same masthead as the Sun with "Weekly" appearing in the title ornament.