In the late 19th century, the city supported close to 20 English-language daily newspapers, with the New York Herald one of the most popular.
The Herald’s winning formula? A sensationalist tone, reliance on illustrations, and coverage of fashion, arts, and culture.
Yep, all the lifestyle fluff newspapers today need to attract readers.
Perhaps these sweet, apparently hand-drawn posters advertising the coming Sunday edition had something to do with it though.
Cartoons, new fiction, and illustrations of Central Park plus new routes concerning the cycling craze: good reading on a May Sunday in the mid-1890s.
[posters from the New York Public Library Digital Collection]
Tags: Central Park 1895, Gay Nineties NYC, life in New York 1890s, May 1985 newspaper, New York City newspapers, New York Herald, New York Herald posters, New York in the 1890s, Sunday New York Herald
Ephemeral New York 
May 2, 2011 at 2:01 pm |
Sort of like much of the Internet today.