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Bat Cave

Photo crop exposure date: unknown.
Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1869 – 1889.
Subject: Photo crop of West Commerce Street and the San Antonio City Hall/Bexar County Courthouse and Jail Compound (1852). The view is west along Commerce Street, taken from in front of Kalteyer’s Drug Store. The Three story Elmendorf building, just past Moke’s Cheap Store on the north side of Commerce is not present, It will be completed in 1890.