The New York World was a newspaper published in New York City from 1860 to 1931. The paper played a major role in the history of American newspapers as a leading national voice of the Democratic Party. From 1883 to 1911 under publisher Joseph Pulitzer, it was a pioneer in yellow journalism, capturing readers' attention with sensation, sports, sex and scandal and pushing its daily circulation to the one-million mark. It was sold in 1931 and merged into the New York World-Telegram.
New York World cover announcing conquest of Dewey of the Spanish Navy in the Battle of Manila Bay in May 1898
Advertising poster for the July 28, 1895, New York Sunday World
Special Christmas 1899 section featuring a story by Mark Twain
1904 political cartoon of President Theodore Roosevelt
Joseph Pulitzer was a Hungarian-American politician and newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World. He became a leading national figure in the Democratic Party and was elected congressman from New York.
Joseph Pulitzer
A chromolithograph of Pulitzer superimposed on a composite of his newspapers.
"Liberty Enlightening the World, or The Statue of Liberty," a stained glass window commissioned by Pulitzer to commemorate the New York World's fundraising for the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Originally installed in the New York World Building, it was moved to Pulitzer Hall at Columbia University.
An 1898 editorial cartoon by Leon Barritt depicts Pulitzer and Hearst each pushing for war with Spain.
