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The Sun, 1833 - Issue #1.

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Historical Memorabilia Start Price:40.00 USD Estimated At:60.00 - 120.00 USD
The Sun, 1833 - Issue #1.
SOLD
40.00USD+ buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2017 May 16 @ 10:40UTC-4 : AST/EDT
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New York. Issue # 1 of the New York Sun, The Sun became 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.