Collection contains photographs of Cornell University campus, students, activities, professors, athletics, and waterfalls, taken by Ada Buck when she was a student at Cornell. Campus buildings photographed include Sibley Hall, Goldwin Smith Hall, Sage Chapel, Boardman Hall, and Balch Hall.

Covering letter to Henry Woodward Sackett from E. Gorton Davis (June 10, 1926), with reports and estimates for Cascadilla and Fall Creek Gorge development at Cornell University. Includes List of Contributions, 1924-1926; Appropriations and Expenditures, 1924-1926; and a Report on Planting, 1925-1926. Also, letter from Bryant Fleming, a university landscape consultant, to Ellis Jackson, 1929.

Collection contains Van Nostrand's notebook from an engineering course at Cornell University, photographs of his dorm room and of the Junior Prom of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity, and invitations from various social groups. Other photographs include campus scenery, Phi Sigma Kappa lodge, football game against Colgate, ROTC exercises, and regional fairs.

Two scrapbooks.