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Max Moxley Photographs
Farming
Sorghum vulgare var. technicum was used produce to brooms. Sterling was know as the broomcorn capital, shipping truckloads of broomcorn to the east…
Max Moxley Photographs
Broomcorn
{Written on back of picture} J.H. Smith, founding President, himself from New York bought in Eastern Capital to finance local broomcorn buyers.…
Max Moxley Photographs
Newspaper
Printing room in one of the several papers in Sterling around the turn of the century.
Max Moxley Photographs
Newspaper
Men working at a newspaper, possibly the Sterling Bulletin.
Charles Haven Photographs
Native Americans
Early Rice County historians say that in May 1872, when Landis and Hollinger erected the first building on the townsite of Sterling, there were only…
Jerald K. Bourgain Photographs
Automobile
This 1910 photo shows the dealership for the E.M.F. Automobile, manufactured from 1908 to 1912 in Detroit by Everett-Metzger and Fladers. The sign in…
Jerald K. Bourgain Photographs
Henry Arnold
Unquestionably, Sterling's most eligible bachelor in 1916 was the handsome Henry Arnold. He not only owned the town's biggest flour mill…
Max Moxley Photographs
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…
Max Moxley Photographs
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…
Max Moxley Photographs
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…