page_title: George Botsford
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: George Botsford / Early life and education
caption_attribution_description: Original caption: These buildings, between 6th Avenue and Broadway on 28th Street, housed the sheet-music publishers that were the center of American popular music in the early 20th Century.
context_page_description: George Botsford was an American composer of ragtime and other forms of music.
context_section_description: Botsford was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, but grew up mostly in Clermont, Iowa. He married singer Della Mae Wilson, and in 1900, they began touring with the Hoyle Stock Company troupe. An ad promoting Botsford and his wife as musicians appeared in the New York Clipper in 1901, which may indicate the first time that Botsford visited New York City.
caption: Buildings that housed sheet music publishers on Tin Pan Alley
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