Sterling Digital Collections

Sterling, Kansas

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Max Moxley Photographs
[Typed on label on front]
Interior of the original bank, erected in 1884. President Ralph Newman at right.
Max Moxley Photographs
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…
Charles Haven Photographs
This early photograph of the west side of Broadway was taken at the corner of Main Street. The photo was taken in either 1878 or 1879. One point of…
Charles Haven Photographs
One of the earliest pictures of Sterling taken in 1875 or 1876.
Max Moxley Photographs
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 &…
Charles Haven Photographs
[On label] This entire set of photographs was taken by Sterling's first photographer, Charles Haven. This studion (sic) was located on alley west of…
Charles Haven Photographs
[On label]
First county courthouse, at Lyons, located at center of present square.
Charles Haven Photographs
[On label] Cement block houses, then called "patent stone," made their appearances early -- 1878. This house still stands at Seventh and Monroe.
Charles Haven Photographs
The "Odd Fellows Building" was built in 1878, for $9,000 by Judge Ansel Clark, attorney and legislator, who for many years had his office in the…
Charles Haven Photographs
[On front label] A very early locomotive in the Sterling yards. (A Taunton engine.) Notable for the spark arrestor on the smokestack -- to prevent…