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Photos of William Hull Botsford and family on Cornell campus and elsewhere; Ithaca; portraits of family and friends; and works of art in museums. Most photos taken by Botsford himself (note initials), but some taken by others including Mother. Pictures of YMCA basketball team and Cornell wrestling.

Scope and Contents William Hull Botsford’s diary for 1909. Many entries are short, noting names of people he met with on a given day. Pages for earlier months mostly blank, with some stamped “W. Hull Botsford, Architect, Elmira, N.Y.” in purple ink. More substantial entries are concentrated in the months of November and December. These include mentions of Botsford’s younger siblings, Talitha and Emory; travel to Ithaca, Jersey City (to inquire about the New Jersey State Board of Architects exam), and...

Scope and Contents William Hull Botsford’s diary for 1910. Entries mostly concern his work for the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad, with mentions of projects in Lake Hopatcong, Bath, Bloomfield, Andover, and Towaco. Entries also discuss Botsford’s entry in the design competition for the YMCA of the Oranges in New Jersey. Enclosures in the diary include letters to Botsford from his younger siblings, Talitha and Emory, as well as photographs of Botsford and friends. Some pages are damaged by...

Scope and Contents William Hull Botsford’s diary for 1911. Most entries include a quotation from different published works, many relating to the discipline of architecture. Entries document Botsford’s work with the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad, including business travel and work on the Montclair, New Jersey and Syracuse, New York train stations; mechanical and architectural drawing classes he taught at the Orange, New Jersey YMCA; the Annual Intercollegiate Wrestling Meet for 1911, in which...