New-York mirror.
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| OCLC: | 11195076 |
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| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New-York :
G.P. Morris,
1830-
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| Series: | American periodical series, 1800-1850 ;
785-787. |
| Related Items: | Continues:
New-York mirror, and ladies' gazette Absorbed: American monthly magazine (Boston, Mass.) |
| Format: | Serial Microform Note that CRL will digitize material from the collection when copyright allows. |
| Published: | Vol. 8, no. 1 (July 10, 1830)-v. 20 (Dec. 31, 1842) |
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| Item Description: | Founded in 1823 by the poets George Pope Morris and Samuel Woodworth, the Mirror was a well-printed and illustrated eight-page quarto of miscellaneous character. It played a very important part in the rise of the Knickerbocker literary school, and was a fashionable journal of New York society. Its great forte was its comment on the passing interests of the day - fads and foibles, the enthusiasms of the people, the great popular interests - and thus for the social historian is an invaluable record. Literary reviews; original tales, usually sentimental; notes on music; a weekly record of New York theater; biography; verse, familiar essays; and "Desultory Selections" - these came to make up the Mirror's bill of fare. Politics were ignored, and dramatic and art criticism were important elements. (cont.) Attention was given to women's interests as well, including a monthly fashion section. The Mirror was one of the earliest papers to use woodcuts extensively; in 1827 a few engravings on copper, chiefly of public buildings, appeared, and thereafter there were about four a year. In the late thirties it was transferred to Daniel Fanshaw, and cheaper eclectic meterial appeared. In spite of an improvement just before the suspension, it was abandoned at the end of 1842. Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900. Title from caption. |
| Physical Description: | 13 v. |
| Publication Frequency: | Weekly. |