George D. Clyde research materials

George D. Clyde research materials, 1929-1971

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Clyde, George D.
Title: George D. Clyde research materials
Dates: 1929-1971 (inclusive)
19291971
Quantity: 17 boxes, (7 linear ft.)
Collection Number: UUS_COLL MSS 279
Summary: This collection consists of the research files of George D. Clyde, including reports, writings, correspondence, papers, notes, speeches, and subject files.
Repository: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu
Access Restrictions: Restrictions
Open to public research.
Languages: English.
Sponsor: Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

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 also was a director of Utah Water and Power Board. He played an important role in 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.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

This collection consists of the research files of George D. Clyde, including reports, writings, correspondence, papers, notes, speeches and subject files. Boxes 1 and 2 contain biographical information on Clyde and correspondence, box 3 contains notes and reports, and box 4 folders 1-7 contain speeches. The remainder of Box 4 (Folders 8-9) through Box 11 contain files on various subjects and organizations, such as research on foreign trade, irrigation, water law and resources, soil conservation, and several engineering councils. Boxes 12 through 16, contain some of Clyde's writings on various subjects. Box 17 contains certificates and awards presented to Governor Clyde.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.

Permission to publish material from the George D. Clyde research materials must be obtained from the Special Collections Manuscript Curator and/or the Special Collections Department Head.

Preferred Citation

George D. Clyde research materials, 1929-1971. (COLL MSS 279). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The collection is organized by type, and then alphabetically.

Acquisition Information

This material was transferred to us from the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming, which decided to deaccession it. The papers were donated to the AHC in 1972 by Jerald R. Clyde, the son of George Clyde.

Processing Note

Guide prepared by: Special Collections and Archives staff.

Related Materials

George D. Clyde papersColl MSS 176

George D. Clyde speechesCOLL MSS 255

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

BiographicalReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
1	1	Biographical: George Dewey Clyde: Certificates, Awards	undated
1	2	Biographical: George Dewey Clyde: Inspirational, Career, Utah	undated
1	3	Biographical: George Dewey Clyde: Political Campaigns	undated
1	4	Biographical: George Dewey Clyde: National Water Commission	1967
1		Book: Geotechnical Bulletin. Woodward, Moorhouse and Associates, Inc	undated

CorrespondenceReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
1	5	Correspondence: American Society of Civil Engineers	undated
1	6	Correspondence: American Society of Civil Engineers	undated
1	7	Correspondence: Consulting Engineers Council: committee reports, water	1965-1967
2	1	Correspondence: Consulting Engineers Council: committee reports, water	1968-1969
2	2	Correspondence: Desert Research Institute, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada	1969-1970
2	3	Correspondence: General/ Professional	undated
2	4	Correspondence: National Reclamation Association	undated
2	5	Correspondence: National Reclamation Association	undated
2	6	Correspondence - National Reclamation Association: Committee on Research in Water and Agriculture (Letters, Notes, Documents)	1968-1969
2	7	Correspondence - Public Land Law Review Commission	1964
2	8	Correspondence - Water Resources Planning Act	1963

NotesReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
3	1	Notes (cards): Irrigation and water supply	undated
3	2	Notes: Miscellaneous - Water Policy, Military Engineers, Speeches	1966-1967
3	3	Notes (cards): Speeches on Water Topic	undated

ReportsReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
3	4	Report: Bear Lake Irrigation	1934
3	5	Report: To Governor on Boy scouts, LDS Explorers	1960-1963
3	6	Report: California brief of Colorado River	undated
3	7	Report: Community experience with the disposal of major governmental facilities	1962 November
3	8	Report: Freeport Analysis	1962
3		Report: Report Manual	June 1961
3		Booklet: Basic Issues in the Utah School Controversy	1964 July
3		Booklet: Report by Utah School Study Committee to George D. Clyde	1964 December
	Folder
3	9	Report: Utah State Park and Recreation Commission	1959
3	10	Report: To Governor Clyde: Organization and Activities of Emergency Water Conservation Committee	1961 May 1
3	11	Weekly Newspaper Reports from the Governor (Clyde)	1958
3	12	Report: Water for All" Western Water Project	1963-1964

SpeechesReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
4	1	Speeches: In preparation	1964-1965
4	2	Speeches: Governor	1959-1965
4	3	Speeches: Lectures: Irrigation, Water Resources and Measurement, Mormon Pioneers	1935-1938
4	4	Speeches: Water and Man, The Engineer in Public Service, Water Supply	1961-1967
4	5	Speeches: Water, Irrigation	1962-1966
4	6	Speeches: Water, Irrigation	1962-1968

Subject FilesReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
4	7	Subject File: American Public Works Association: Speech, Correspondence	1965-1967
4	8	Subject File: American Society of Agricultural Engineers Letters, Reports, Speeches	1963-1968
4	9	Subject File: American Society of Civil Engineers: Special Conventions	1964-1969
5	1	Subject File: American Society of Civil Engineers: Utah Section	1966-1967
5	2	Subject File: American Society of Public Administration, University of Utah	1966 February 25
5	3	Subject File: Articles for Distribution: Colorado, Volume II (Reclamation Politics)	1954
5	4	Subject File: Atomic Energy: Nevada Test Site: Correspondence brochure	1964
5	5	Subject File: Articles for Distribution- Colorado, vol. I (reclamation politics)	1940-1959
5	6	Subject File: Canyonlands National Park. Part 1	1962
5	7	Subject File: Canyonlands National Park. Part 2	1962
5	8	Subject File: Central Utah Project. Letters, documents, speeches, pamphlets, photographs, etc	1956-1964
5	9	Subject File: Bonneville Unit- Central Utah Project. Senate and House testimony by George Clyde and others	1965 May 19-1966
6	1	Subject File: Central Utah Water Conservancy District	1965
6	2	Subject File: Consulting Engineer Council: Water Resources Research- 10th Anniversary Convention, Tulsa Oklahoma	1966 May
6	3	Subject File: Colorado River Basin Project position statements	1966-1967
6	4	Subject File: Consulting Engineers Council notes, correspondence, manuals: National and Colorado	1964-1971
6	5	Subject File: Consulting Engineers Council of Utah	undated
6	6	Subject File: Desert Research Institute reports, leaflets	1968-1969
6	7	Subject File: Economic Development pamphlets	1960-1962
6	8	Subject File: Education- NEA Crisis	undated
6	9	Subject File: Committee on National Water Resources	1959
7	1	Subject File: Engineers' Council for Professional Development- letters, presentations, minutes	1967
7	2	Subject File: Foreign Trade- England	1962 July 14-August 5
7	3	Subject File: Foreign Trade- Japan	1963 October 12-28
7	4	Subject File: Foreign Trade- Russia- Notes, clippings	1959
7	5	Subject File: Foreign Trade- Soviet Union: Khrushchev, Clyde notes and speech	1959 June 24 - July 17
7	6	Subject File: Imperial Irrigation District Technical Guide, Imperial California	1948 January
7	7	Subject File: Interstate Conference on Water Problems, Dallas Texas	1962 January 14-16
7	8	Subject File: Irrigation, "Men on Irrigation" Photos Included.	1948-1953
7	9	Subject File: Irrigation and Water Rights. Miscellaneous essays including one by Clyde	1957-1960
8	1	Subject File: Irrigation Research: Agriculture Experiment Station, Logan, Utah	1925-1945
8	2	Subject File: Miscellaneous: Promotional Graphics for Water	undated
8	3	Subject File: National Guard: Free Academy, "Americanism Up Front", Gov. Clyde statement	1964
8	4	Subject File: National Reclamation Association, Agricultural Research Committee	1966 November 14-15, 1967 March
8	5	Subject File: National Reclamation Association Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico (Research Committee, Program, Etc.)	1966 November 13-19
8	6	Subject File: National Reclamation Association Convention, Oklahoma City	1968 November 17-22
8	7	Subject File: National Reclamation Association Convention, Palm Springs	1964 November 8
8	8	Subject File: National Reclamation Association Convention, Portland, Oregon	1962 October 18
8	9	Subject File: National Reclamation Association Convention, Spokane, Washington	1969 October 19-21
8	10	Subject File: National Reclamation Association Convention, Twin Falls, Idaho	1967 June 15-16
8	11	Subject File: National Reclamation Association - Western Water Executives	1968-1970
8	12	Subject File: National Society of Professional Engineers. Utah, Minnesota, Letters	1960-1969
8	13	Subject File: National Water Research Symposium	1961 March 28-30
8	14	Subject File: North American Water and Power Alliance	1963-1965
8	15	Subject File: Oroville Dam, California State Water Project	1964 October 5
8	16	Subject File: Power Rate Reduction: Upper Colorado River Commission	1964
9	1	Subject File: Resource Development, clippings	1961-1964
9	2	Subject File: Scofield Gooseberry Water Project, Utah Water and Power Board	1964
9	3	Subject File: Soil Conservation Society of America, Speech, Correspondence	1964-1970
9	4	Subject File: Upper Colorado River Commission. George D. Clyde and others	1964
9	5	Subject File: Upper Colorado River Commission	1965
9	6	Subject File: Upper Colorado River Commission	1966-1968
9	7	Subject File: Upper Colorado River Commission	1969
10	1	Subject File: Upper Colorado River Commission operating criteria meeting, Colorado River System	1969 July 25
10	2	Subject File: Upper Colorado River Commission	1970
10	3	Subject File: Upper Colorado River Commission, Rainbow Bridge-Lake Mead controversy	1970 December 4
10	4	Subject File: Upper Colorado River Commission, Rainbow Bridge-Lake Mead controversy	1971 January 13 - May 5
10	5	Subject File: Upper Colorado River Commission	1971
10	6	Subject File: Utah State Engineer Progress Report, Salinity, Gov. Clyde	1964
10	7	Subject File: Utah Water Research Lab Advisory Panel, Utah Water Research Center	1970-1971
11	1	Subject File: Water- General	undated
11	2	Subject File: Water- some articles by George D. Clyde	1950
11	3	Subject File: Water for peace International Conference, Washington DC	1967 May 23-31
11	4	Subject File: Water Law- E.J. Skeen and B.F. Logren papers	1935-1938
11	5	Subject File: Water Law - important water rights cases in Utah	undated
11	6	Subject File: Water Law- review of water rights cases in Utah	undated
11	7	Subject File: Water Law- Utah Supreme Court decisions regarding underground water	1935
11	8	Subject File: Water Policy	undated
11	9	Subject File: Western Interstate Water Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada	1964 September 16-17

WritingsReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
12	1	Writings: Benefits and Justification of Research- Division of Irrigation	1950-1959
12	2	Writings: Booklets and Pamphlets - State of Utah (Governor)	1957-1964
12	3	Writings: Booklets and Pamphlets - Water Irrigation	1953-1967
12	4	Writings: Irrigation - General	undated
12	5	Writings: Irrigation - General	1934-1936
12	6	Writings: Irrigation	1940
12	7	Writings: Miscellaneous papers	1949-1970
13	1	Writings: Miscellaneous papers vol. 2	1955
13	2	Writings: Miscellaneous papers on irrigation and runoff	1911-1930
13	3	Writings: Miscellaneous papers on snow surveys	1920-1949
13	4	Writings: Outlines of papers, speeches vol. 1	1953-1955
13	5	Writings: Outlines of papers, speeches vol. 2	1955-1971
13	6	Writings: Papers and speeches presented by George D. Clyde, vol. 1 (1-30)	1954-1955
13	7	Writings: Papers and speeches presented by George D. Clyde, vol. 2 (31-42)	1955-1956
14	1	Writings: Papers, book no. 1, part 1 (irrigation)	1930-1959
14	2	Writings: Papers, book no. 1, part 2 (irrigation)	1930-1959
14	3	Writings: Papers, book no. 2, part 1 (irrigation, water)	1940-1959
14	4	Writings: Papers, book no. 2, part 2 (irrigation, water, God)	1940-1959
14	5	Writings: Papers on Civil Engineering. Water flow, forecasting, development	1967
14	6	Writings: Papers on irrigation and drainage, soil and water conservation	1950-1959
14	7	Writings: Report, Federal Land Bank of Berkley. Ground water depletion in the Escalante Valley	1933 September 7
15	1	Writings: Report, Federal Land Bank of Berkley. Physical and agricultural conditions of the Bonneville Irrigation District	1939 December 20
15	2	Writings: Report - Russian trip vol. 1	1959
15	3	Writings: Report - Statement for Appropriations Committees	1952 January 7
15	4	Writings: Report - Summary of research in irrigation and drainage	1945-1953
15	5	Writings: Report - War production training program	1945 August 2
15	6	Writings: Research Papers - Water Forecasting, irrigation, glossary of water terms	1937-1938
15	7	Writings: Russia Trip (part 1)	June-July 1959
16	1	Writings: Russia Trip (part 2)	1959 June-July
16	2	Writings: Utah Budget Crisis	1964 November 24
16	3	Writings: Utah Historical Quarterly, "History of Irrigation in Utah", "Utah After Statehood"	1958-1964
16	4	Writings: Water papers	1952-1970
16	5	Writings: Publications on snow cover measurements and water supply forecasting by George D. Clyde	1929-1936
16	6	Writings: Report of water conservation program and drought situation in Utah	1934 May

AwardsReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
17	1	Certificates and Awards of George D. Clyde	undated

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Agriculture--West (U.S.)--History--Sources.
Governors--Utah--Records and correspondence.
Water resources development--West (U.S.)--History--Sources.

Personal Names

Clyde, George D.

Corporate Names

United States. Soil Conservation Service. Division of Irrigation and Water Conservation--History--Sources.
Utah State University--Faculty--Records and correspondence.
Utah State University. College of Engineering--History--Sources.

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