The New York Times, then New York Daily Times, published its first issue on September 18th, 1851. This visualization shows the number of articles published on each page of the New York Times on each day of that year. Values for each page are shown in a different shade of gray. The maximum number of articles published in a single day in 1851 was 84 on October 3rd, compared to approximately 200 pieces every day currently. Since 1851, the New York Times has published more than 13 million articles.
