This film and the book, Reading the Economist, both depart from a single image—a print often referred to as the first photograph to be printed in a newspaper without the intervention of an artist’s hand. As such, the photograph became a part of histories of photography and photojournalism, but remains absent from histories of urban development. This has left the objects and the place depicted in the image unclear. It could have been an image of the place that became Central Park, or it could be somewhere else.