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History -- Sterling, Kansas
[Typed on label on front]
Interior of the original bank, erected in 1884. President Ralph Newman at right.
Interior of the original bank, erected in 1884. President Ralph Newman at right.
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1900s
Six wagons, with teams and drivers, posing in front of "Farmer's Elevator" at the railroad tracks. Other buildings are in the background, as well as…
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Floods
Flood July 1929 shows a man, a woman, and two boys standing knee-deep in flood water in front of a business. The striped awning reads, "... SAVING &…
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Farming
The 1950's saw the end of horse-drawn implements on local farms. The Mansz brothers who lived on Avenue V six miles east of Sterling, were the last to…
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History--Sterling, Kansas
Here a work crew, composed largely of local men, tears out the original limestone curbing and replaces it with the town's first concrete curb and…
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Fourth of July
This one horse, rear engine buggy was the highlight of the Fourth of July parade in 1906. It is advertising Arnold Milling Co. Crystal Flour. Notable…
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Newspaper
Men working at a newspaper, possibly the Sterling Bulletin.
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Newspaper
Printing room in one of the several papers in Sterling around the turn of the century.
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Broomcorn
{Written on back of picture} J.H. Smith, founding President, himself from New York bought in Eastern Capital to finance local broomcorn buyers.…
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Farming
Sorghum vulgare var. technicum was used produce to brooms. Sterling was know as the broomcorn capital, shipping truckloads of broomcorn to the east…