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<p>Transcribed from front of photograph: "Buildings. King County Courthouse. Third Avenue and Jefferson Street. Built 1882; demolished after 1891. 1886." Transcribed from back of photograph: "The first courthouse of King County, at the corner of Jefferson Street and Third Avenue, built in 188_. The second store of the county jail appears on the right or south. Sold to the City of Seattle in 1891 and used since with many changes and additions for a City Hall. The house on the hill top is the dwelling of Beriah Brown, on Seventh Avenue and Terrace Street. Three blocks to the West is the M. S. Booth dwelling."
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<hr><ul><li>"Built 1882" is potentially misleading. Part of this was built 1876, and the first of many extensions (the only one at the time this photo was taken) was the addition of a courtroom in 1882.</li>
<li>"second store of the county jail" is presumably "second story of the county jail"</li>
<li>"demolished after 1891", while true in a sense, is <i>very</i> misleading: the building was demolished in 1909.</li>
<li>Different sources variously date this photo 1882 or 1886.</li></ul></div>
1886<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15015coll4/id/1201">Record in source catalog</a></li>
<li>DPLA identifier: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dp.la/item/0909bd52436c9bf9752c87d3d845fbc2">0909bd52436c9bf9752c87d3d845fbc2</a></li>
<li>Seattle Public Library identifier: spl_shp_15041</li></ul></span>