The late 19th Century date is based on no electric lines in evidence, gas lamps(?), horse drawn streetcar and clothing styles. It is a chilly, bright Winter day, about mid-morning is my guess; there are a few scarves but the little boy holding his mother’s hand in the middle ground is only wearing a Buster Brown outfit; a man in the right foreground is carrying a roll of paper; two men are pushing a cart, one with what looks like paper (news?); there is a coach and a hansom cab.
For a bright day, and considering the 5.5” X 8” dimensions of the print, detail and sharpness are surprisingly low, but we can just read the advertising sign on the streetcar boards which says Furniture Prices (no claim about whether those are low prices, but we can assume). The photographer has set his camera up in direct sun; the light is at a low angle from our right but the windows in the shadow side of the buildings reflect the brightness of the sky; there was considerable light flare on the left and right foreground which I have repaired because it was a distraction from an otherwise pleasant view – and because it was not what the photographer intended for it to be.