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Title: John Burrus
Description: Biographical sketch of John Burrus, a farmer near Blue Springs, Missouri, with description of his father, William T. Burrus, a Civil War veteran and construction contractor in Kansas City, involved in the erection of the Gillis House.
Date: 1896
Object Type: Book

Title: Gillis Hotel
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: A Memorial and Biographical Record of Kansas City and Jackson County, Mo., Illustrated
Date: 1896
Object Type: Book

Title: Biography of William Gillis (circa 1797-1869), Indian Trader and Kansas City Town Founder
Date: 2008
Object Type: Biography

Title: Publications of the Kansas State Historical Society Embracing Recollections of Early Days in Kansas
Description: Observations by Colonel Shalor Eldridge in 1855: "Kansas City we found to be a straggling village of scarcely a thousand inhabitants. ..The streets of the town were yet to be." Descriptions of the town's only hotel, the Gillis House, and a tavern, the "O. K. House."
Date: 1920
Object Type: Book

Title: Gillis House Hotel
Description: Partial rear view; also shows Missouri River in background.
Date: 1870
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Hannibal Bridge
Description: Distant view of Hannibal Bridge from riverfront area; also shows Gillis House.
Date: 1881
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Gillis House Hotel
Description: Distant frontal and side view; also shows riverfront.
Date: 1870
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Gillis House Hotel
Description: Distant view as seen through the stone supports of the Hannibal Bridge.
Date: 1870
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Hannibal Bridge
Description: Looking southeast from the north side of the Missouri River; shows Gillis House.
Date: 1870
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Hannibal Bridge
Description: Looking southeast from the north side of the Missouri River; shows Gillis House.
Date: 1870
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Gillis House and Missouri River
Description: View taken from the south bank of the Missouri River looking toward the river with the back of the Gillis House in view. Identified as rock for the Missouri River Bridge on bluff east of Broadway.
Date: 1870~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Recalls a Frontier Day
Description: Article about a registry book found from 1869, with signatures of guests such as Generals George Custer and Joseph Johnston.
Date: 1912-10-29
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Gillis House Hotel and Missouri River
Description: View looking northeast from a hill southwest of the Gillis House Hotel. An individual seated among rocks at the top of the hill and buildings across the river in Harlem can be seen.
Date: 1869
Object Type: Photograph

Title: P24 Photograph Scrapbook #3 Historic Kansas City Finding Aid
Description: The scrapbook contains 72 various-sized, second-generation black and white prints of early Kansas City riverfront views. Included are scenes of the grading of the bluffs for streets, early commercial and residential buildings, street views, and some early railroad development. Some views of the Hannibal Bridge construction events and the Gillis House are also included. Written identification appears on most of the photos.
Date: 1865~/1880~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Mr. E. S. Jewett: Brief Sketch of One of Westport's Solid Citizens
Description: Portrait and biographical article about Erwin Schofield Jewett, or E. S. Jewett, "one of the best known railroad men in the United States." Description of his life and career, born in Michigan in 1837 and coming to Kansas City in 1865 as "city ticket agent" for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Also a description of his various observations of Kansas City history, including the decline of the Gillis House hotel and the destruction of the Santa Fe Railroad headquarters by tornado or "cyclone."
Date: 1894-03-03
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Gillis House Hotel
Description: Full frontal and side view.
Date: 1867
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Gillis House Hotel
Description: View of the Gillis House Hotel and Limestone Ledge that was known as Westport Landing.
Date: 1867
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Walnut Levee from North Side of the River
Description: View looking south of the levee between Walnut and Wyandotte streets from the north bank of the Missouri River. Several early downtown buildings, including the Gillis House Hotel, can be seen.
Date: 1870~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Riverfront View
Description: Early view of the riverfront at Kansas City. Identified as showing the bluffs on the south side of the Missouri River, the streets of Delaware, Wyandotte, and Broadway area in view. Gillis House is partially in view behind the steamboat Gipsey. Also shows early work on the Hannibal Bridge.
Date: 1867~
Object Type: Photograph

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