Title

New Yorker in Kansas

Subject

Broomcorn

Farming

Businsses

History--Sterling, Kansas

Description

{Written on back of picture} J.H. Smith, founding President, himself from New York bought in Eastern Capital to finance local broomcorn buyers. Broomcorn was the town's leading industry in 1880's and 1890's.

Source

Sterling Free Public Library, Sterling, Kansas

Publisher

Sterling Free Public Library, Sterling, Kansas

Date

1880's and 1890's

Contributor

Max Moxley

Rights

Reproduced with permission from the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.

In Copyright

Format

image/jpeg

Language

English

Type

Photographs

Identifier

MM_broomcorn086.jpg
MM_broomcorn086b.jpg