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Title: Harris House Hotel
Description: Vertical File containing information concerning the Harris House Hotel.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Biography of John Harris (1795-1874), Hotelier
Date: 2008
Object Type: Biography

Title: Westport in Its Heyday Was a Thriving Frontier Town
Date: 1933-03-26
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: May We Present Albert N. Doerschuk
Description: Photo and biographical article about Albert Doerschuk, operator of a small drug store "[o]n the southwest corner of Westport and Pennsylvania Avenues" and former owner of the Harris House Hotel, coming to Kansas City about 1890 from Ohio.
Date: 1935-04-26
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Otto H. Jacobs Dies: Retired Musician, 95, Was Born in Belgium
Description: Obituaries for Otto Jacobs, a composer of polkas and other music, and player in orchestras at the Orpheum and Willis Wood theaters, dying at the age of 95 in 1958.
Date: 1958-08-26
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Harris House Hotel
Description: Full frontal and side view; located on northeast corner Westport Avenue and Pennsylvania.
Date: 1915
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Harris House Hotel
Description: Postcard of the Harris House Hotel in Westport.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Harris House Hotel
Description: Full frontal and side view.
Date: 1915
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Battle of Westport Drawing
Description: Photograph of drawing of battle scene, shows the Harris House in the background.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Harris House Hotel
Description: Full frontal and side view.
Date: 1915
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Harris House in Westport
Description: Exterior, street view of the Harris House located at the northeast corner of Westport Avenue and Pennsylvania Street. A truck and automobiles are visible in front. Identified in scrapbook as "Old Westport views."
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Historic Harris Hotel, Seventy Years Old, Comes Down
Description: Photo and caption about the demolition of the Harris House hotel, "built at Westport avenue and Penn street in 1852" by John Harris. Planned to be "replaced by a modern store building, with shops on both Westport and Pennsylvania avenues."
Date: 1922-11-19
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Harris House Hotel
Description: Exterior, corner street view of Harris House (Hotel). Similar to #17, different view. Identified as "Old Westport Views."
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Memories of Old Westport
Description: Description of the Harris House Hotel and Yoacham Tavern in pioneer Westport as firsts of their kind there.
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Founding of Our Street Railway System by Nehemiah Holmes
Description: Mention of the hotel at Main and what is now Westport Road, the southern terminus of the street railway from Kansas City in 1872.
Date: 1923-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Battle of Westport and National Memorial Park
Description: Photo of the Harris House in Westport, the rooftop viewpoint of General Curtis in the Battle of Westport.
Date: 1938
Object Type: Book

Title: The Harris House Hotel, West Port, Missouri 1846-1922
Description: Early history of hotels in Westport including the Harris House and McGee's Catfish House in the 1840s.
Date: 1995
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: War in Kansas: A Rough Trip to the Border among New Homes and a Strange People
Description: Colorful if crude journal entry regarding a stay at "'old man Harris's' most uncomfortable 'hotel,' in Westport."
Date: 1856
Object Type: Book

Title: The Battle of Westport
Description: Photo of and from the Harris House, used as a Civil War headquarters for General Curtis.
Date: 1906
Object Type: Book