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Photograph of a Brass Era Car Accident on Cathedral Parkway

[Automobile History - New York City] Unknown Photographer

$250
  • Condition: Very good plus.
  • Binding: Photograph measuring 6 ½ x 4 ¾ inches. With Culver Pictures stamps verso, covered by several later Culver Pictures and bar cod
  • Publisher: Culver Pictures Inc
  • Location: New York City
  • Date: N.d.
  • Seller SKU: List3714

New York City: Culver Pictures Inc, N.d.. Photograph measuring 6 ½ x 4 ¾ inches. With Culver Pictures stamps verso, covered by several later Culver Pictures and bar code stickers. Slight damage to edges, particularly corners; spot of more significant wear at upper left edge. Very good plus.. A photograph of what appears to be a Brass Era single-vehicle accident on Cathedral Parkway in New York City (likely printed later, as the visible Culver Pictures stamps read "AUTOS-OLD"). Three men stand around the driver, who is attended to by a man in a white coat and black cap, while a fourth watches from a doorway. The nature of the accident is not entirely clear, as the car is not visibly damaged and is parked at the curb. The street is otherwise oddly empty of traffic, with no vehicles and only a few other pedestrians visible. New York City was the location of the US's first motor vehicle fatality (though not its first accident, which occurred in 1891 in Ohio) when, in September 1899, real estate agent Henry H. Bliss was run over by a taxicab.

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Auger Down Books
Specializing in Americana, Archives, Art, Graphics, History and Photography.
Auger Down Books is a small and highly curated business focusing on American social history through photography, archives, documents, graphics and printed material.
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Marlboro, Vermont 05344
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