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Transcribed from photograph: "Theaters. Cordray theater. Third Avenue and Madison Street. Built 1890; demolished 1908. 1892. Toklas and Singerman's store 1889-1890. Madison Street Theater, 1890. Cordray Theater 1890-1894. Third Avenue Theater 1894-1908. Providence Hospital in background. Madison Street cable car at right. Caption: Madison St. Seattle 149 Boyd and Braas." Various names used for the same theatre at the University of Washington Digital Collection are: 'Theatre, northeast corner of 3rd Ave. and Madison St., Seattle. Theatre is advertising 'The Taylor Co.' and 'Queen of the Highway'. Known earlier as the Madison St. Theatre, then Cordray's Theatre, it was originally built as a store. The Lincoln Hotel is in the background at 4th Ave. and Madison St.' Index card verifies date as 1892.</div>
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<li>DPLA identifier: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dp.la/item/2f3da247f3b8778a442a786936f2ff87">2f3da247f3b8778a442a786936f2ff87</a></li>
<li>Seattle Public Library identifier: spl_shp_5231</li></ul></span>