Sterling Digital Collections

Sterling, Kansas

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Charles Haven Photographs
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This was scene from Keystone Mill looking west. Depot is the right. The track with boxcars is a siding. Edwards Fair elevator at…
Max Moxley Photographs
In 1926, construction workers pose for a picture in front of the new grade school and junior high, as they finish up the sidewalks. In 2009, this…
Max Moxley Photographs
From the label on front of the picture: With grasshopper plague in 1874, farmers fought to make a living. Picked buffalo bones from prairie to…
Max Moxley Photographs
"Some 25 years ago or so, the late Jim Wilson, part-time photographer for The Bulletin, came into the office to report that Smitty the Barber was…
Max Moxley Photographs
Appears to be a group of school children from 1877.
Max Moxley Photographs
A group of school children from Miss Williamson's 3rd grade class of 1886
Charles Haven Photographs
One of four majors fires that engulfed 20 buildings in Sterling between 1880-1882.
Charles Haven Photographs
This photograph shows a crew harvesting broom corn. Sterling gained national attention as a "Broomcorn Capital," shipping trainloads of brush to New…
Max Moxley Photographs
This Independence Day Parade of 1884 includes a bandwagon of rather unique style-actually a broomcorn wagon whose characteristic flared style lent…
Max Moxley Photographs
The Fourth of July parade in 1900; it is led by the town band, followed by the local militia, Company H, Second Regiment, Kansas National Guard. The…