Photo crop exposure date: unknown.
Exposure date (or window) of subject photo: 1883-1884
Subject: Photo crop of Military Plaza. View WSW across the plaza. Taken from a point at and within the walled area at the rear (SW corner) of San Fernando Cathedral. Note the tracks for the Flores Street horse drawn streetcar. Dated by R.J. Hoffheinz Hardware (1883) having bought out L. Scheihagen who Hoffheinz was clerking for until this year at this location and placed his own name on the store and that Oscar Pettitpain and Charles Lea, second hand furniture dealers, at the SW corner of the plaza have a short association and that the first year for Reid and Simms “Occident” Saloon cannot be earlier or later than 1884.