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Utah State Agricultural College. School of Engineering. Office of the Dean files, 1932-1946

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Utah State Agricultural College. College of Engineering. Office of the Dean
Title
Utah State Agricultural College. School of Engineering. Office of the Dean files
Dates
1932-1946 (inclusive)
Quantity
11 boxes, (4.5 linear feet)
Collection Number
UUS_14.4/1:17
Summary
Mostly correspondence and reports. Topics covered include the Engineering School's active role in Depression era and World War II educational programs on campus.
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
Languages
English.
Sponsor
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008
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Historical Note

Most of the papers relate to the tenure of George Dewey Clyde ( See also, MS 176, Papers of George D. Clyde) who served as Dean of the School of Engineering from 1938 to 1945. Clyde became a member of the Utah State Agricultural College (USAC) faculty in 1923

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Content Description

The bulk of the collection concerns itself with New Deal Federal Agencies, water development projects, and World War II, specifically the Engineering School's active role in Depression era and WW II educational programs on campus, and in Bureau of Reclamation projects.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

folders have been organized alphabetically by subject.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Container List
  • Description: Agriculture, Post-War Planning Committee
    Container: Box 1, Folder 1
  • Description: Agriculture, Post War Planning Committee, Land-grant College Committee
    Container: Box 1, Folder 2
  • Description: Agriculture, Post War Planning Committee, Land -grant Association, Minutes and correspondence
    Container: Box 1, Folder 3
  • Description: Agriculture, Post War Planning Committee, Land -grant Association, Minutes and correspondence
    Container: Box 1, Folder 4
  • Description: Agriculture, Post War Planning Committee, Land -grant Association, Minutes and correspondence
    Container: Box 1, Folder 5
  • Description: Agriculture, Post War Planning, Utah Committee
    Container: Box 2, Folder 1
  • Description: Airport, Logan/Cache
    Dates: 1940s
    Container: Box 2, Folder 2
  • Description: Airport, Logan/Cache

    Design and Construction

    Dates: 1940s
    Container: Box 2, Folder 3
  • Description: Airport, Logan/Cache

    Westinghouse proposal

    Dates: 1940s
    Container: Box 2, Folder 4
  • Description: American Geophysical Union

    See also box 9, folder 10

    Container: Box 2, Folder 5
  • Description: Bibliography, Auto Mechanics, articles in Main Library
    Container: Box 2, Folder 6
  • Description: Bibliography, Books in Engineering Library
    Container: Box 2, Folder 7
  • Description: Bibliography, Engineering subjects
    Container: Box 2, Folder 8
  • Description: Bibliography, Experiment Station Books
    Container: Box 2, Folder 9
  • Description: Bibliography, Irrigation
    Container: Box 2, Folder 10
  • Description: Bibliography, Miscellaneous reprints
    Container: Box 3, Folder 1
  • Description: Bibliography, Precipitation, Stream-flow, etc.
    Container: Box 3, Folder 2
  • Description: Bibliography, Precipitation, Stream-flow, etc., review of literature
    Container: Box 3, Folder 3
  • Description: Bibliography, Water publications
    Container: Box 3, Folder 3a
  • Description: Boulder Dam
    Container: Box 3, Folder 4
  • Description: Boulder Dam
    Container: Box 3, Folder 5
  • Description: Census File, Agriculture, Utah
    Container: Box 3, Folder 6
  • Description: Centerville, water spreading area
    Dates: 1939
    Container: Box 3, Folder 7
  • Description: Correspondence, A, general
    Container: Box 4, Folder 1
  • Description: Correspondence, American Society of Agricultural Engineers
    Container: Box 4, Folder 2
  • Description: Correspondence, American Society of Civil Engineers
    Container: Box 4, Folder 3
  • Description: Correspondence, Association for the Advancement of Science
    Container: Box 4, Folder 4
  • Description: Correspondence, Beers, W.D.
    Container: Box 4, Folder 5
  • Description: Correspondence, Bell, Wm. H. (Registrar)
    Container: Box 4, Folder 6
  • Description: Correspondence, Bernstrom, Russell E. (Secretary/Treasurer)
    Container: Box 4, Folder 7
  • Description: Correspondence, Bernstrom, Russell E. (Secretary/Treasurer)
    Container: Box 4, Folder 8
  • Description: Correspondence, Budget, Agricultural Engineering
    Container: Box 4, Folder 9
  • Description: Correspondence, Budget, Automotive
    Container: Box 4, Folder 10
  • Description: Correspondence, Civil Engineering
    Container: Box 4, Folder 11
  • Description: Correspondence, Bundy, Ora (State Publicity Bureau)
    Container: Box 4, Folder 12
  • Description: Correspondence, B, general
    Container: Box 4, Folder 13
  • Description: Correspondence, C, general
    Container: Box 4, Folder 14
  • Description: Correspondence, Cache County Ration Board
    Container: Box 4, Folder 15
  • Description: Correspondence, Cache Valley Flying, Inc. (F.P. Champ)
    Container: Box 4, Folder 16
  • Description: Correspondence, Cardon, P.V. (Experiment Station)
    Container: Box 4, Folder 17
  • Description: Correspondence, Carlisle, John C.
    Container: Box 4, Folder 18
  • Description: Correspondence, Carter, Harold S.
    Container: Box 4, Folder 19
  • Description: Correspondence, Clyde, George D.
    Container: Box 4, Folder 20
  • Description: Correspondence, Cole, Larry (Radio)
    Container: Box 4, Folder 21
  • Description: Correspondence, Coulam, Joseph (Buildings and Grounds)
    Container: Box 4, Folder 22
  • Description: Correspondence, Coulam, Joseph (Woodworking)
    Container: Box 4, Folder 23
  • Description: Correspondence, Cross, M.A. (Colonel)
    Container: Box 4, Folder 24
  • Description: Correspondence, Cub River CCC Camp

    Concerns surplus equipment from the Civilian Conservation Corp

    Dates: 1943
    Container: Box 4, Folder 25
  • Description: Correspondence, Daines, Spencer S.
    Container: Box 4, Folder 26
  • Description: Correspondence, Davies, David (Librarian)
    Container: Box 4, Folder 27
  • Description: Correspondence, Dean's Council
    Container: Box 4, Folder 28
  • Description: Correspondence, Deferments (Military), Engineering students
    Container: Box 4, Folder 29
  • Description: Correspondence, E, general
    Container: Box 4, Folder 30
  • Description: Correspondence, Edgel, Lewis G.
    Container: Box 4, Folder 31
  • Description: Correspondence, Egbert, S.R.
    Container: Box 4, Folder 32
  • Description: Correspondence, Engineering, Campus Committee
    Container: Box 4, Folder 33
  • Description: Correspondence, Examinations, Special credit
    Container: Box 4, Folder 34
  • Description: Correspondence, Extension Service
    Container: Box 4, Folder 35
  • Description: Correspondence, F, general
    Container: Box 5, Folder 1
  • Description: Correspondence, Facilities in the School of Engineering
    Container: Box 5, Folder 2
  • Description: Correspondence, Faculty, general letters
    Container: Box 5, Folder 3
  • Description: Correspondence, Fonnesbeck, Leon
    Container: Box 5, Folder 4
  • Description: Correspondence, France, Roy
    Container: Box 5, Folder 5
  • Description: Correspondence, Fuhriman, Dean F.
    Container: Box 5, Folder 6
  • Description: Correspondence, G, general
    Container: Box 5, Folder 7
  • Description: Correspondence, Gardner, V.D.
    Container: Box 5, Folder 8
  • Description: Correspondence, Graduate Work, Campus Committee
    Container: Box 5, Folder 9
  • Description: Correspondence, H, general
    Container: Box 5, Folder 10
  • Description: Correspondence, Hayward, Ira N. (Dean)
    Container: Box 5, Folder 11
  • Description: Correspondence, Homan, W.J.
    Container: Box 5, Folder 12
  • Description: Correspondence, Howells, Rulon S. (War Manpower Commission)
    Container: Box 5, Folder 13
  • Description: Correspondence, Humphreys, L.R.
    Container: Box 5, Folder 14
  • Description: Correspondence, Israelsen, O.W.
    Container: Box 5, Folder 15
  • Description: Correspondence, Isrealsen, M.A.
    Container: Box 5, Folder 16
  • Description: Correspondence, J, general
    Container: Box 5, Folder 17
  • Description: Correspondence, Jerman, I.D. (Bureau of Reclamation)
    Container: Box 5, Folder 18
  • Description: Correspondence, K, general
    Container: Box 5, Folder 19
  • Description: Correspondence, Kepner, H.R.
    Container: Box 5, Folder 20
  • Description: Correspondence, L, general
    Container: Box 5, Folder 21
  • Description: Correspondence, Maughan, J. Howard
    Container: Box 5, Folder 22
  • Description: Correspondence, Maw, Herbert (Governor)
    Container: Box 5, Folder 23
  • Description: Correspondence, McGraw/Hill publishers
    Container: Box 5, Folder 24
  • Description: Correspondence, McWhorter, Wayne
    Container: Box 5, Folder 25
  • Description: Correspondence, Merrill, M.R.
    Container: Box 6, Folder 1
  • Description: Correspondence, Milligan, Cleve H.
    Container: Box 6, Folder 2
  • Description: Correspondence, Moser, Ervin U. (Logan City Engineer)

    Includes information on underground pumps on College Hill.

    Container: Box 6, Folder 3
  • Description: Correspondence, N, general
    Container: Box 6, Folder 4
  • Description: Correspondence, O, general
    Container: Box 6, Folder 5
  • Description: Correspondence, Office of Price Administration
    Container: Box 6, Folder 6
  • Description: Correspondence, P, general
    Container: Box 6, Folder 7
  • Description: Correspondence, Parker, Harry
    Container: Box 6, Folder 8
  • Description: Correspondence, Paulson, A.B. (State Engineer)

    Concerns architectural drawings of campus buildings in possession of State Engineer's Office

    Container: Box 6, Folder 9
  • Description: Correspondence, Peterson, E.G. (President), incoming
    Dates: 1943
    Container: Box 6, Folder 10
  • Description: Correspondence, Peterson, E.G. (President), incoming
    Dates: 1944
    Container: Box 6, Folder 11
  • Description: Correspondence, Peterson, E.G. (President), outgoing
    Dates: 1943
    Container: Box 6, Folder 12
  • Description: Correspondence, Peterson, E.G. (President), outgoing
    Dates: 1944
    Container: Box 6, Folder 13
  • Description: Correspondence, Peterson, Wm. (Extension)
    Container: Box 7, Folder 1
  • Description: Correspondence, Photographic Work
    Container: Box 7, Folder 2
  • Description: Correspondence, Preator, Frederick
    Container: Box 7, Folder 3
  • Description: Correspondence, Publicity and Industrial Development (Utah)
    Container: Box 7, Folder 4
  • Description: Correspondence, R, general
    Container: Box 7, Folder 5
  • Description: Correspondence, Romney, E.L. (Coach)
    Container: Box 7, Folder 6
  • Description: Correspondence, Ross, E.A.
    Container: Box 7, Folder 7
  • Description: Correspondence, S, general
    Container: Box 7, Folder 8
  • Description: Correspondence, Swenson, Don N.
    Container: Box 7, Folder 9
  • Description: Correspondence, Sigma XI Society
    Container: Box 7, Folder 10
  • Description: Correspondence, Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education
    Container: Box 7, Folder 11
  • Description: Correspondence, South, George P.
    Container: Box 7, Folder 12
  • Description: Correspondence, Students, prospective
    Dates: 1945-1946
    Container: Box 7, Folder 13
  • Description: Correspondence, Surplus equipment, sale of
    Container: Box 7, Folder 14
  • Description: Correspondence, Teachers Retirement Board
    Container: Box 7, Folder 15
  • Description: Correspondence, Teaching Load
    Container: Box 7, Folder 16
  • Description: Correspondence, Telegrams and Telephone calls
    Container: Box 7, Folder 17
  • Description: Correspondence, T, general
    Container: Box 7, Folder 18
  • Description: Correspondence, U, general
    Container: Box 7, Folder 19
  • Description: Correspondence, United States Procurement Division (Surplus property)
    Container: Box 7, Folder 20
  • Description: Correspondence, V, general
    Container: Box 7, Folder 21
  • Description: Correspondence, W, general
    Container: Box 7, Folder 22
  • Description: Correspondence, Wahlgren, Ervind B.
    Container: Box 7, Folder 23
  • Description: Correspondence, XYZ, general
    Container: Box 7, Folder 24
  • Description: Deer Creek Reservoir, proposed water supply (clipping file)
    Dates: 1934
    Container: Box 8, Folder 1
  • Description: Defense, Data pertaining to proposed Cantonment (Incendiary Bomb storage) facility in Cache Valley
    Dates: 1941
    Container: Box 8, Folder 2
  • Description: Defense, Data pertaining to proposed Cantonment (Incendiary Bomb storage) facility in Cache Valley
    Dates: 1941
    Container: Box 8, Folder 3
  • Description: Defense, Data pertaining to proposed Cantonment (Incendiary Bomb storage) facility in Cache Valley

    Land owners in vicinity.

    Dates: 1941
    Container: Box 8, Folder 4
  • Description: Defense, Data pertaining to proposed Cantonment (Incendiary Bomb storage) facility in Cache Valley

    Map of site.

    Dates: 1941
    Container: Box 8, Folder 5
  • Description: Defense, Data pertaining to proposed Cantonment (Incendiary Bomb storage) facility in Cache Valley

    Memorandum for study of Camp Site (blank)

    Dates: 1941
    Container: Box 8, Folder 6
  • Description: Defense, Data pertaining to proposed Cantonment (Incendiary Bomb storage) facility in Cache Valley

    Memorandum on Physical Conditions in Cache County.

    Dates: 1941
    Container: Box 8, Folder 7
  • Description: Defense, Data pertaining to proposed Cantonment (Incendiary Bomb storage) facility in Cache Valley

    Miscellaneous Correspondence.

    Dates: 1941
    Container: Box 8, Folder 8
  • Description: Defense, Data pertaining to proposed Cantonment (Incendiary Bomb storage) facility in Cache Valley

    "Report on Proposed Ammunition Dump Site, Cache Valley, Utah"

    Dates: 1941
    Container: Box 8, Folder 9
  • Description: Defense, Data pertaining to proposed Cantonment (Incendiary Bomb storage) facility in Cache Valley

    Supporting material, telegrams and correspondence.

    Dates: 1941
    Container: Box 8, Folder 10
  • Description: Engineering, general
    Container: Box 8, Folder 11
  • Description: Engineering, Education
    Container: Box 8, Folder 12
  • Description: Engineering, Education
    Container: Box 8, Folder 13
  • Description: Engineers, Association of Western State Engineers
    Container: Box 8, Folder 14
  • Description: Engineers, Council for Professional Development
    Container: Box 9, Folder 1
  • Description: Farm Bureau, American, Institute of Irrigation Agricultural, 5th annual conference, SLC
    Dates: 1936
    Container: Box 9, Folder 2
  • Description: Farm Bureau, American, Water Users Conference, 3rd annual, SLC
    Dates: 1932
    Container: Box 9, Folder 3
  • Description: Farm Electrification Program, Booklet, Utah Power and Light
    Dates: 1930s
    Container: Box 9, Folder 4
  • Description: Farm Electrification Program, leaflets
    Container: Box 9, Folder 5
  • Description: Grand Coulee Dam
    Container: Box 9, Folder 6
  • Description: Grand Coulee Dam
    Container: Box 9, Folder 7
  • Description: Housing fadcilities, WW II (campus)
    Container: Box 9, Folder 8
  • Description: Reclamation, General information regarding Reclamation Projects in Utah
    Container: Box 9, Folder 9
  • Description: Reclamation, Miscellaneous Bureau of Reclamation
    Container: Box 9, Folder 10
  • Description: Reclamation, Pressure Grouting Equipment
    Container: Box 10, Folder 1
  • Description: Reclamation, Statement on Reclamation, SLC

    Report of USAC Committee to committee approved by the Secretary of Interior.

    Dates: 1934 October 17
    Container: Box 10, Folder 2
  • Description: copy 2 of above
    Container: Box 10, Folder 3
  • Description: Reclamation, Utah Projects
    Dates: 1938
    Container: Box 10, Folder 4
  • Description: Reports, Aeronautics Department, campus

    Includes report to Governor's Committee for Engineering at USAC.

    Dates: 1942
    Container: Box 10, Folder 5
  • Description: Reports, Civil Engineering -includes report to Governor's Committee for Engineering at USAC
    Container: Box 10, Folder 6
  • Description: Reports, Engineering, expenditures
    Container: Box 10, Folder 7
  • Description: Reports, Engineering, School of and Engineering Experiment Station

    Includes report to Governor's Committee for Engineering at USAC.

    Container: Box 10, Folder 8
  • Description: Copy 2 of above, 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
    Dates: 1942 January 21
    Container: Box 10, Folder 9
  • Description: Reports, History of Engineering

    Includes copy of Utah State Quarterly, May 1934

    Container: Box 10, Folder 10
  • Description: Reports, Mechanic Arts
    Container: Box 10, Folder 11
  • Description: Reports, Metals Department
    Container: Box 10, Folder 12
  • Description: Reports, Industrial Division
    Container: Box 10, Folder 13
  • Description: Reports, Peterson, E.G. (President)
    Container: Box 10, Folder 14
  • Description: Reports, Radio Department
    Container: Box 10, Folder 15
  • Description: Reports, Woodwork Department
    Container: Box 10, Folder 16
  • Description: Sevier River, "Stipulations Governing Rights to the Use of the Waters..."

    Includes Richlands Irrigation vs. Westview Irrigation, et al,"

    Dates: 1931 February 21
    Container: Box 10, Folder 17
  • Description: Snake River, General information on the Upper Snake River Project
    Dates: 1937
    Container: Box 10, Folder 18
  • Description: Snow Surveys -includes American Geophysical Union materials
    Container: Box 10, Folder 19
  • Description: Soil Conservation
    Container: Box 10, Folder 20
  • Description: "Technical Education News"
    Dates: 1940s
    Container: Box 11, Folder 1
  • Description: Uintah Basin Study, Land Utilization
    Container: Box 11, Folder 2
  • Description: Uintah Basin Study, Correspondence -including U.S. Division of Resettlement Administration
    Container: Box 11, Folder 3
  • Description: Uintah Basin Study, Duchesne County
    Container: Box 11, Folder 4
  • Description: Uintah Basin Study, Minutes of Meetings
    Dates: 1930s
    Container: Box 11, Folder 5
  • Description: Up Stream Engineering Conference
    Container: Box 11, Folder 6
  • Description: Veterans Hospital, proposed site in Logan, Utah
    Container: Box 11, Folder 7
  • Description: Veterans Hospital, proposed site in Nibley, Utah
    Container: Box 11, Folder 8
  • Description: War Manpower Commission
    Dates: 1943
    Container: Box 11, Folder 9
  • Description: Water facilities

    Including information on Beaver Meadow Reservoir and Burnt Fork Reservoir in Summit and Daggett counties, Utah.

    Container: Box 11, Folder 10

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Subject Terms

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

Personal Names

  • Clyde, George D.

Corporate Names

  • Utah State Agricultural College. College of Engineering. (creator)
  • Utah State Agricultural College. College of Engineering. (creator)
  • Utah State University. College of Engineering--History. (creator)

Finding aid created by Special Collections & Archives,
2008

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