Periodicals

The bohemians of antebellum New York published regularly in the daily newspapers, literary weeklies, and monthly magazines that proliferated throughout the United States in the years leading up to the Civil War. Writers and artists at the beginnings of their careers published in periodicals as a way to build their reputations and attract the attention of book publishers. A number of the periodicals that began during this period, such as The New York Tribune and Harper's Monthly, became very successful and continued to be published well into the twentieth century. Many other periodicals, however, lasted only for a few years. Two such periodicals, The New York Saturday Press and Vanity Fair, began around the tables at Pfaff's bar. The Saturday Press ran from October 1858 until December 1860, and was briefly revived in August 1865 only to cease publication again in June 1866. Similarly, Vanity Fair began publishing in December 1859 and ended its run in July 1863. During that brief window, however, the two periodicals were a showcase for a variety of irreverent, playful, and socially savvy literary and artistic productions. Vanity Fair regularly featured illustrations and was primarily a humor magazine with a strong political bent; the Saturday Press was text-only and focused on literary and theatrical arts, as well as commentary on current events. When the Pfaff's bohemians no longer had Vanity Fair and the Saturday Press available to them as publication venues, many of them began contributing to The New York Leader, a weekly that ran from 1856 to 1871.

The Vault at Pfaff's provides scanned page images of the Saturday Press, Vanity Fair, and the Leader in an Islandora viewer. Poems, illustrations, and articles from the Saturday Press and Vanity Fair have been indexed, with metadata and abstracts searchable on the site. Selections from the Leader will be indexed at a later date. In addition, many pieces by and about the Pfaff's bohemians that appeared in periodicals such as Harper's, Putnam's, The Knickerbocker, and Frank Leslie's Paper have been indexed for searching and, where available, links have been provided to external websites that house scanned page images or transcriptions.

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Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Odd Sticks, and Certain Reflections Concerning Them." Scribner's Magazine. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. (1889-1-1).
"“Mary Hewins Fiske Dead.”." New York Times. The New York Times. (1889-2-5).
"Untitled." Dramatic Mirror. (1889-2-19).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "The Shipman's Tale." Harper's New Monthly Magazine. New York: Harper and Bros. (1889-3-1).
Watson, J. W.. "Notes and Comments: How Artemus Ward Became a Great Lecturer." North American Review. (1889-4-1).
Scovel, James M.. "Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. (1889-8-1).
"People of Prominence." Pittsburgh Dispatch. Pittsburgh Dispatch. (1889-9-20).
Mitchell, J. A.; Frank Bellew. "Contemporary American Caricature." Scribner's Magazine. (1889-12-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Two Lyrics." The Atlantic Montly. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Co. (1889-12-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Echo-Song." Atlantic Monthly. (1890-1-1).
Lukens, Henry Clay. "American Literary Comedians." Harper's New Monthly Magazine. (1890-4-1).
"In and about the City: Death of Charles I. Pfaff. Something about the Proprietor of the Once Famous "Bohemia."." New York Times. (1890-4-26).
"[Acute gastritis, which carried off Charles Pfaff last week]." Brooklyn Eagle. (1890-4-27).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "I Vex Me Not with Brooding on the Years." Century Magazine. (1890-5-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Guiliemus Rex." Century Magazine. (1890-8-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "The Sisters' Tragedy. A. D. 1670." Scribner's Magazine. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. (1890-8-1).
Gray, John Frederick Schiller. "The Mineral Waters of St. Clair Springs, Mich.: Their Application to Diseased Conditions, Etc." Journal of Balneology. Journal of Balneology Pub. Co. (1890-10-1).
Alger, Horatio Jr.. "Are My Boys Real?." Ladies' Home Journal. Philadelphia : Curtis Publishing Co. (1890-11-1).
"Lucifer a Theosophical Magazine, March to August 1891." Lucifer a Theosophical Magazine, March to August 1891. London: The Theosophical Publishing Society. (1891-1-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "A Monody on the Death of Wendell Phillips." Century Magazine. (1891-2-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Sargent's Portrait of Edwin Booth." Harper's New Monthly Magazine. New York: Harper and Bros. (1891-2-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Elmwood - In Memory of James Russell Lowell." Scribner's Magazine. (1891-12-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "My Cousin the Colonel. A Story." Harper's New Monthly Magazine. (1891-12-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "A Christmas Fantasy with a Moral." Century Magazine. (1891-12-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Fireflies." The Century; a popular quarterly. New York: The Century Company. (1892-1-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "A Parable." The Century; a popular quarterly. New York: The Century Company. (1892-1-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Transformation." The Century; a popular quarterly. New York: The Century Company. (1892-1-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Death Defied." Century Magazine. (1892-1-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Interludes." Century Magazine. (1892-1-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Art." The Century; a popular quarterly. New York: The Century Company. (1892-1-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. ""When From the Tense Chrords of that Mighty Lyre"." The Century; a popular quarterly. New York: The Century Company. (1892-3-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "At Nijnii-Novgorod." Harper's New Monthly Magazine. (1892-4-1).
Burroughs, John. "The Poet of Democracy." The North American Review. (1892-5-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Books and Seasons." Century Magazine. (1892-5-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Sprigs of Lilac for Walt Whitman." The Conservator. (1892-6-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "White Edith - A Story Re-Told." Scribner's Magazine. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. (1892-7-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Two Moods." Harper's New Monthly Magazine. New York: Harper and Bros. (1892-7-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Unguarded Gates." The Atlantic Monthly. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Co. (1892-7-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Sea-Longings." The Century; a popular quarterly. New York: The Century Company. (1892-8-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Bagatelle." Harper's New Monthly Magazine. (1892-9-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "For Bravery on the Field of Battle." Century Magazine. (1892-10-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Insomnia." Century Magazine. (1892-11-1).
Ford, James L.. "New York's Bohemia: A Kingdom Which Still Exists, Although Pfaff's Restaurant is No More." The Philadelphia Inquirer. (1892-11-27).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "A Shadow of the Night." Scribner's Magazine. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. (1892-12-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Seeming Failure." The Century; a popular quarterly. New York: The Century Company. (1892-12-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Nourmadee." Harper's New Monthly Magazine. (1892-12-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "A Bridal Measure." Century Magazine. (1893-1-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Goliath." Century Magazine. (1893-2-1).
"Died in Bowery Lodgings: Sad Ending of the Career of George G. Clapp." New York Times. (1893-4-10).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "The Chevalier de Resseguier." Century Magazine. (1893-5-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Broken Music." Scribner's Magazine. (1893-5-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Old Portsmouth Profiles." Century Magazine. (1893-7-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Her Dying Words." Scribner's Magazine. (1893-8-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Quatrains." The Century; a popular quarterly. New YorK: The Century Company. (1893-8-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "The Poets." The Century; a popular quarterly. New York: The Century Company. (1893-12-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Voices and Visions." Scribner's Magazine. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. (1893-12-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Imogen." Century Magazine. (1894-1-1).
Bunner, H.C.; B. West Clinedinst. "Urban and Suburban Sketches: The Bowery and Bohemia." Scribner's Magazine. (1894-1-1).
Burroughs, John. "Walt Whitman and His Art." Poet Lore. (1894-2-1).
"“Frank Booth Goodrich.” The New York Times. March 22, 1894." The New York Times. The New York Times. (1894-3-22).
Twain, Mark. "A Private History of the 'Jumping Frog' Story." The North American Review. (1894-4-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Ellen Terry in the Merchant of Venice." Century Magazine. (1894-4-1).
Bissell, Champion. "Fitz-James O’Brien and His Time." Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. (1894-5-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "The Lament of El Moulock." Harper's New Monthly Magazine. (1894-5-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Reminiscence." The Century; a popular quarterly. New York: The Century Company. (1894-5-1).
Stoddard, Elizabeth. "Achilles in Orcus." The Atlantic Monthly. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Co. (1894-5-1).
Stoddard, R. H.. "Where?." The Atlantic Monthly. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Co. (1894-5-1).
Barry, John D. "New York Letter." Literary World. (1894-6-16).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "A Portrait of Thomas William Parsons." The Century Magazine. New York: The Century Company. (1894-7-1).
Reid, Mary J.. "Stedman and Some of His British Contemporaries." Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine. (1895-1-1).
"Harper's Magazine." Brooklyn Eagle. (1895-5-27).
Howells, William Dean. "First Impressions of Literary New York." Harper's New Monthly Magazine. (1895-6-1).
Rawson, A. L.. "A Bygone Bohemia." Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. (1896-1-1).
Stoddard, R. H.. "The Caravansary." The Atlantic Monthly. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Co. (1896-2-1).
Stoddard, R. H.. "The Flight of the Arrow." The Atlantic Monthly. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Co. (1896-6-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "On Reading William Watson's Sonnets Entitled "The Purple East"." The Century Magazine; a popular quarterly. New York: The Century Company. (1896-7-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Passages from Judith and Holofernes." The Atlantic Monthly. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Co. (1896-8-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Santo Domingo." The Century Magazine; a popular quarterly. New York: The Century Company. (1896-11-1).
Griffis, William Elliot. "George H. Boughton, the Painter of New England Puritanism." The New England Magazine. (1896-12-1).
Benton, Joel. "Forum." Forum. (1897-2-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Forever and a Day. A Song." Atlantic Monthly. (1897-10-1).
Benton, Joel. "Reminiscences of Eminent Lecturers." Harper's New Monthly Magazine. (1898-3-1).
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "His Grace the Duke." Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine. (1898-5-1).
Roosa, Dr. Daniel Bennett St. John. "Untitled Article in Richard Henry Stoddard's "World of Letters"." New York Mail and Express. (1898-6-20).
Hillyer, William Sidney. "Facts in O'Brien's Brilliant Career." New York Times. (1898-7-2).
Burroughs, John. "The Vital Touch in Literature." The Atlantic Monthly. (1899-3-1).
Hillyer, William Sidney. "William North: The Romance of This Poet's Life -- His Sad Death and Forgotten Name." New York Times Saturday Review. (1899-3-18).
Gilder, Joseph B.. "Mr. Stoddard at Seventy-Five." Critic. (1900-9-1).
"Fitz-Greene Halleck’s Sanity and Financial Condition.”." The New York Times. Fitz-Greene Halleck’s Sanity and Financial Condition.”. (1901-11-16).
Dunlop, George. "Rossetti's Copy of Poe's 'Erekau' [sic]." New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art. (1902-7-26).
Stedman, Edmund Clarence. "Mr. Stedman’s Tribute." New York Times. (1902-8-2).
"Death of Mrs. Stoddard." New York Times. (1902-8-2).
"Town and Country Life." Town and Country. New York. (1902-8-12).
"Literary Notes." Independent. (1902-8-14).
McCann, John Ernest. "Not by William North." New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art. (1902-8-19).
"In Brief." Congregationalist and Christian World. (1902-8-19).
"Richard Henry Stoddard." Zion's Herald. (1903-5-20).
"Richard Henry Stoddard." Watchman. (1903-5-21).
"Richard Henry Stoddard." Outlook. (1903-5-23).
Skinner, Charles. "Whitman as Editor." Atlantic Monthly. (1903-11-1).
Maurice, Arthur Bartlett. "Literary Clubland II: New York's Literary Clubs." The Bookman: A Review of Books and Life. (1905-6-1).
Stoddard, Charles Warren. "Ada Clare, the Queen of Bohemia." National Magazine. Boston. (1905-9-1).
Chambers, Julius. "Do Lovers of Literature Recognize Debt to Bohemia?." Brooklyn Daily Eagle. (1906-5-13).
Alden, W.L.. "Some Phases of Literary New York in the Sixties." Putnam's Monthly. (1907-1-1).
"“Queries and Answers.”." The New York Times. The New York Times. (1909-11-13).
"QUERIES AND ANSWERS.: George Jones, the "Count Joannes" and Capt. Frederick Lahrbush -- "Peggy" O'Neil, the Wife of President Jackson's Secretary of War -- When Was the Hymn, "Jesus, Lover of My Soul," Written? -- Voyages and Travels by-John Churchill --." The New York Times. (1909-11-13).
"ROSE EYTINGE DEAD AT 76: Once Noted Actress Cared for by Actors’ Fund--Her Career." The New York Times. (1911-12-21).
"Stephen Fiske: Dramatist, Author, and Former War Correspondent Dies at 75." The New York Times. The New York Times. (1916-4-28).
"“Clara Louise Kellogg Ill.”." The New York Times. The New York Times. (1916-5-9).
"Clara Kellog's Will." The New York Times. The New York Times. (1916-6-1).
"“Carl Strakosch Dead.”." The New York Times. The New York Times. (1916-10-24).
"William Winter, Noted Critic, Dies: Shakespearean Scholar and Poet Succumbs After Long Illness at Almost 81." The New York Times. (1917-7-1).
Ford, James L.. "Good By Bohemia." The New York Tribune. New York. (1922-1-11).
Parry, Albert. "Queen of Bohemia [Ada Clare]." American Mercury. (1930-9-1).
Bellew, Frank. "Visit of the Ku-Klux." Harper's Weekly. (1972-2-24).
"Walt Whitman: America's 'First' Bohemian." Poetrybay: An Online Poetry Magazine for the 21st Century. (2003-1-1).
Crain, Caleb. "Reconsidering Thomas Butler Gunn's 'Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses." (2009-3-26).