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Utah State University George Dewey Clyde papers, 1932-1946

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Utah State University. College of Engineering.
Title
Utah State University George Dewey Clyde papers
Dates
1932-1946 (inclusive)
Quantity
4.5 linear feet, (11 boxes)
Collection Number
UUS_14.4/1:17
Summary
This collection includes correspondence, reports, and office files from Dean of the College of Engineering George Dewey Clyde.
Repository
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections and Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu
Access Restrictions

No restrictions on use, except: not available through interlibrary loan.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008
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Historical Note

Born on July 21, 1898, in Mapleton, Utah County, Utah, George Dewey Clyde graduated from Utah State Agricultural College in 1922. As an agricultural engineer, he served on the staff of both the Experiment Station and the College, becoming a full professor in 1928. He served as Dean of the School of Engineering from 1936 through 1945. Following World War II, Mr. Clyde left the employ of the College to assume the duties of Chief of the Division of Irrigation Engineering and Water Conservation for the Soil Conservation Service, Research Branch under the United States Department of Agriculture. He was also a director of the Utah Water and Power Board. He played an important role in the approval of the Upper Colorado River Basin Storage Project in 1956. A long standing member of the Utah Republican Party, he left Civil Service and ran successfully for the governorship of Utah that same year, serving eight years. George Clyde was the 10th governor of Utah. He focused on the economic development of Utah while in office. Clyde returned to civil service in 1965. He and his wife, Ora Packard Clyde, raised five children. George D. Clyde died on April 2, 1972.

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Content Description

This collection includes correspondence, reports, and office files primarily from George Dewey Clyde while Dean of Utah State University's (USU) School of Engineering from 1938 to 1945.

This collection also documents the School of Engineering's role in Depression era and World War II educational programs at Utah State University, including materials related to New Deal Federal Agencies and water development projects.

A file level inventory is avaliable in box 1.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.

Permission to publish material from the Utah State University George Dewey Clyde papers must be obtained from the University Archivist and/or the Special Collections Department Head.

Preferred Citation

Initial Citation: Utah State University George Dewey Clyde papers UUS_14.4/1:17. Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.

Following Citations:UUS_14.4/1:17, USUSCA.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

This collection is arranged alphabetically by subject. Materials with the subject 'correspondence' were moved to Sub-Series A. Correspondence.

Acquisition Information

These materials were collected from the College of Engineering around 1970.

Related Materials

George Dewey Clyde papers, UUS_COLL MSS 176

George D. Clyde research materials, UUS_COLL MSS 279

George D. Clyde speeches, UUS_COLL MSS 255

George Dewey Clyde photograph collection, UUS_P0374

Processing Note

Processed in December 2000 and updated in July 2026.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • I. Office Files

    • Description: Agriculture

      Concerns Post-War planning committee and the Land-grant Association. Includes correspondence and meeting minutes.

      Dates: about 1932-1944
      Container: Box 1
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Agriculture

      Concerns Post-War planning committee and the Utah committee.

      Dates: about 1932-1944
      Container: Box 2, Folder 1
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Airport

      Concerns Logan Utah AirPort. Includes blueprints and drawings.

      Dates: circa 1940s
      Container: Box 2, Folder 2-4
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: American Geophysical Union

      Also see Box 9 folder 10.

      Dates: about 1932-1944
      Container: Box 2, Folder 5
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Bibliographies

      Includes bibliographies for auto mechanics, engineering library, engineering subjects, experiment station books, and irrigation.

      Dates: about 1932-1944
      Container: Box 2, Folder 6-10
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Bibliographies

      Includes miscellaneous reprints, precipitation, streamflow, and water publications.

      Dates: about 1932-1944
      Container: Box 3, Folder 1-3a
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Boulder Dam
      Dates: about 1932-1944
      Container: Box 3, Folder 4-5
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Census File for Utah Agriculture
      Dates: about 1932-1944
      Container: Box 3, Folder 6
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Centerville water spreading area
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box 3, Folder 7
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Deer Creek Reservoir, proposed water supply (clipping file)
      Dates: 1934
      Container: Box 8, Folder 1
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Defense

      Concerns data pertaining to proposed Cantonment (Incendiary Bomb storage) facility in Cache Valley. Includes land owners, maps, and memos, correspondence, and reports.

      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 8, Folder 2-10
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Engineering

      Concerns education, Association of Western State Engineers, and general files.

      Dates: about 1932-1944
      Container: Box 8, Folder 11-14
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Engineers Council for Professional Development
      Dates: about 1932-1944
      Container: Box 9, Folder 1
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Farm Bureau (American) conferences
      Dates: 1932, 1936
      Container: Box 9, Folder 2-3
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Farm Electrification program booklet and leaflets
      Dates: circa 1930s
      Container: Box 9, Folder 4-5
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Grand Coulee Dam
      Dates: about 1932-1944
      Container: Box 9, Folder 6-7
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Housing facilities, WW II (USU campus)
      Dates: about 1932-1944
      Container: Box 9, Folder 8
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Reclamation Projects in Utah

      Concerns Bureau of Reclamation and general info for projects.

      Dates: about 1932-1944
      Container: Box 9, Folder 9-10
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Reclamation Projects in Utah

      Concerns pressure grouting equipment and statement on reclamation.

      Dates: 1934-1938
      Container: Box 10, Folder 1-4
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Reports

      Concerns Aeronautics department, civil engineering (includes report to Governor's Committee for Engineering at USAC), engineering expenditures, School of and Engineering Experiment Station (includes notes taken at a meeting with Governor Herbert Maw, relevant to curricular duplication and budgets at the state's two major institutions of higher learning), History of engineering, mechanical arts, metals department, industrial division, E.G. Peterson, radio department, woodwork department.

      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box 10, Folder 5-16
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Sevier River, "Stipulations Governing Rights to the Use of the Waters..."
      Dates: about 1932-1944
      Container: Box 10, Folder 17
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Snake River, General information on the Upper Snake River Project
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box 10, Folder 18
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Snow Surveys -includes American Geophysical Union materials
      Dates: about 1932-1944
      Container: Box 10, Folder 19
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Soil Conservation
      Dates: about 1932-1944
      Container: Box 10, Folder 20
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: "Technical Education News"
      Dates: circa 1940s
      Container: Box 11, Folder 1
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Uintah Basin Study

      Concerns land utilization, U.S. Division of Resettlement Administration and Duchesne County. Includes meeting minutes.

      Dates: about 1932-1944
      Container: Box 11, Folder 2-5
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Up Stream Engineering Conference
      Dates: about 1932-1944
      Container: Box 11, Folder 6
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Veterans Hospital, proposed sites in Logan and Nibley Utah
      Dates: circa 1930s
      Container: Box 11, Folder 7-8
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: War Manpower Commission
      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box 11, Folder 9
      Location: I. Office Files
    • Description: Water facilities
      Dates: about 1932-1944
      Container: Box 11, Folder 10
      Location: I. Office Files

    • A. Correspondence

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Subject Terms

  • Military education--Utah--Logan.
  • New Deal, 1933-1939--Utah.
  • USU--Faculty and staff.
  • USU--History (Engineering)
  • Water and Water Rights
  • World War, 1939-1945.

Finding aid created by Special Collections & Archives
2008

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