UUM_P1246 Guide to the Edward W. Clyde photograph collection, 1940-1966 Clyde (Edward W.) photograph collection Finding aid created by Claire A. Kempa Multimedia Archives, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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P1246 Clyde, Edward W. Edward W. Clyde photograph collection 1940-1966 1 box Edward W. Clyde (1917-1991) was Utah lawyer specializing in environmental law. This collection contains portraits of Clyde and an album of photographs taken on a 1966 tour of the U.S.S. Yorktown. Collection materials are in English. Biographical Note

Edward W. Clyde (1917-1991) was born in Heber City, Utah to L. Dean and Ardell Buhler Clyde. In his childhood and youth, he worked on the family’s ranch. In 1941, he married Betha (Betty) Jensen and together they raised four children: Susan, Carolyn, Thomas, and Steven.

Clyde received an undergraduate degree in Speech and Economics from Brigham Young University in 1939. In 1942, he received a law degree from the University of Utah. In 1951, Clyde started the Clyde, Meecham and Pratt law firm in Salt Lake City; later, the firm was known as Clyde, Snow, Sessions, and Swenson. Clyde specialized in natural resource laws and litigated many water rights cases, and water reclamation issues, including the Upper Colorado River Compact. Clyde was also involved in the legal planning and negotiations for the Central Utah Project. He sat on the Utah Land Board and Utah Board of Oil, Gas and Mining and served as special consultant to the National Water Commission and National Advisory Council on Public Lands. Clyde also served as attorney for the Salt Lake County Water Conservancy District and the Central Utah Water Conservancy District.

In addition to his career in law, Clyde served the University of Utah's College of Law as a lecturer, a member of the Board of Regents, and president of the Institutional Council. For his service to the University and the State of Utah, he received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Edward W. Clyde died of cancer in 1991.

The Edward W. Clyde photograph collection contains 5 portraits of Clyde dating from about the 1940 to 1960s. It alaso contains a 1966 album containing 33 black-and-white photographs titled "Aloha from the Fighting Lady" and documenting a tour of the U.S.S. Yorktown (CVS-10) offered by the Secretary of the Navy and attended by Clyde.

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Permission to publish material from the Edward W. Clyde photograph collection must be obtained from the Special Collections Manuscript Curator.

Initial Citation: Edward W. Clyde photograph collection, P1246, Box [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library. Salt Lake City, Utah.

Following Citations: P1246.

Donated by Carolyn Mollinet in 2006.

Processed by Special Collections staff.

See also the Edward W. Clyde papers (ACCN 1335) in the Manuscripts Division of Special Collections.

 Clyde, Edward W. Yorktown (Aircraft carrier : CV-10) Lawyers--Utah--Salt Lake City Photographs black-and-white prints (photographs) 1 1 Portraits 1 2 Aloha from the Fighting Lady, 1966