NEW YORK EVENING POST, June 1, 1802

• Founding Father Alexander Hamilton

This is the famous newspaper founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801, still publishing today.
The front page is taken up with advertisements, 18 of which are illustrated ship ads. Various news items of the day from Jefferson's administration.
Four pages, a bit irregular at the spine, some margin tears, an archival mend at the spine.

Background: This early issue of the New York Evening Post from June 1, 1802, stands out as an exceptional piece of early American ephemera due to its immediate connection to Federalist founding father Alexander Hamilton, who established the publication just seven months prior to counter Thomas Jefferson's administration. Its front page offers an extraordinarily visual look into early post-Colonial commerce, featuring 18 separate woodcut ship illustrations—a remarkably high concentration of visual advertising cuts for a 19th-century broadsheet, which typically relied heavily on plain text. Beyond its visual charm, the four-page issue carries immense historical weight, capturing contemporary press coverage and critical Federalist commentary on Jefferson's controversial first-term policies during a pivotal period of American expansion and political reorganization. Complete four-page survivals of Hamilton-era Evening Post editions from the very first years of its printing are exceptionally scarce, making this issue a prized artifact of early political journalism and maritime print history.