page_title: New-York Tribune
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: New-York Tribune / History
caption_attribution_description: Library of Congress description: "Editorial staff of the New York Tribune. Seated, left to right: George M. Snow, financial editor; Bayard Taylor; Horace Greeley; George Ripley, literary editor; Standing, left to right: William Henry Fry, music editor; Charles A. Dana; Henry J. Raymond. Identified and dated by comparison with known likenesses: Greeley in Holden's dollar magazine, 1849; Dana in Scribner's magazine, 1895, p. 442; Raymond in Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, Aug. 23, 1856, p.176. The identification of Snow is based on his inclusion in Brady's list of those in this picture and his apparent age. The identifications of Ripley and Fry are based on their inclusion in Brady's list and resemblance to identified portraits of them as much older men. Harold Francis Pfister, Facing the light&#160;: historic American portrait daguerreotypes (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978), page 323, identifies the men as "[Horace Greeley] with six journalists of the Tribune staff, including: Bayard Taylor (seated, second from left), George Ripley (seated, right), William Henry Fry (standing, right), and Charles A. Dana (standing, center)."
context_page_description: The New-York Tribune was an American newspaper, first established in 1841 by editor Horace Greeley. Between 1842 and 1866, the newspaper bore the name New-York Daily Tribune. From the 1840s through the 1860s it was the dominant Whig Party and then Republican newspaper in the United States. The paper achieved a circulation of approximately 200,000 in the 1850s, making it the largest daily paper then in New York City. The Tribune's editorials were widely read, shared, and copied in other city newspapers, helping to shape national U.S. opinion. It was one of the first papers in the north to send reporters, correspondents, and illustrators to cover the campaigns of the American Civil War.
  In 1924, after 83 years of independent existence, the New-York Tribune merged with another major daily newspaper in New York City, the New York Herald, to form the New York Herald Tribune. The "Trib", as it was known, ceased publication in 1966.
  Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Annabel Lee" was first published in the newspaper posthumously on October 9, 1849, in the obituary by Rufus Griswold entitled "Death of Edgar A. Poe".
context_section_description: The Tribune was created by Horace Greeley in 1841 with the goal of providing a straightforward, trustworthy media source. Greeley had previously published a weekly newspaper, The New Yorker (unrelated to the later modern magazine, of the same name), in 1833, and was also publisher of the Whig Party's political organ, Log Cabin. In 1841, he merged operations of these two publications into a new newspaper that he named, the New-York Tribune.
  Greeley sponsored a host of reforms, including pacifism and feminism and especially the ideal of the hard-working free laborer.  Greeley demanded reforms to make all citizens free and equal. He envisioned virtuous citizens who would eradicate corruption. He talked endlessly about progress, improvement, and freedom, while calling for harmony between labor and capital. Greeley's editorials promoted social democratic reforms, and were widely reprinted. They influenced the free-labor ideology of the Whigs and the radical wing of the Republican Party, especially in promoting the free-labor ideology.  Before 1848 he sponsored an American version of Fourierist socialist reform, but backed away after the failed revolutions of 1848 in Europe.  To promote multiple reforms Greeley hired a roster of writers who later became famous in their own right, including Margaret Fuller,  Charles Anderson Dana, George William Curtis, William Henry Fry, Bayard Taylor, George Ripley, Julius Chambers and Henry Jarvis Raymond, who later co-founded The New York Times. In 1852-62, the paper retained Karl Marx as its London-based European correspondent. Friedrich Engels also submitted articles under Marx's by-line.
caption: Daguerreotype of the Tribune editorial staff by famed later Civil War photographer Mathew Brady (1822–1896), taken circa 1850s. Horace Greeley (1811–1872),  is seated, second from the right. Editor Charles Anderson Dana (1819–1897), is standing, center.
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