Photograph of a Brass Era Car Accident on Cathedral Parkway

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.