Archives West Finding Aid
Table of Contents
- Overview of the Collection
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Historical Note
- Content Description
- Use of the Collection
- Administrative Information
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Detailed Description of the Collection
- Personal Materials
- American Society of Civil Engineers Materials (ASCE) Materials
- ASCE Reports
- ASCE Structures
- ASCE Materials, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
- Hydrology Reports
- Maps
- Correspondence
- Bureau of Reclamation
- Department of Interior
- Water Management
- Military
- Personal Materials
- ASCE Materials
- Names and Subjects
Clyde D. Gessel papers, 1939-2002
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Gessel, Clyde D., 1918-2007
- Title
- Clyde D. Gessel papers
- Dates
- 1939-2002 (inclusive)19392002
- Quantity
- 22 linear feet
- Collection Number
- ACCN 2437
- Summary
- The Clyde D. Gessel papers (1939-2002) contain correspondence, reports, scrapbooks and maps. While the majority of the collection deals with his work as a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), there is a large portion that concerns his work with the Department of Reclamation, where he played a role in many of the prominent water works of the west.
- Repository
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University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860
Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu - Access Restrictions
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Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
- Languages
- English
Historical NoteReturn to Top
Clyde D. Gessel (1918-2007) was born in Providence, Utah on April 1, 1918. He attended Utah State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering. Shortly following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Gessel joined the military and served for two and a half years in the Southwest Pacific salvaging and reconstructing enemy aircraft in order to defeat the Japanese military. Following the war, he married and raised 6 children, while working for the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation as a Civil Engineer. He was also a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), serving in many positions within the organization, including President of the Utah Section. He helped to build many prominent water projects in the west, including Glen Canyon Dam. Gessel travelled the world, visiting such places as Russia, Egypt, the Holy Land, and countries in Asia and South America. He was very involved in his community, and played golf well into his 88th year. He died on April 15, 2007.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The Clyde D. Gessel papers (1939-2002) contain correspondence, reports, scrapbooks and maps. The majority of the collection deals with his work as a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Among the documents concerning the ASCE are correspondence, minutes from meetings, pamphlets and notes from different conferences he attended, and documents that relate to committees that he served on. Another large portion of the collection concerns his work with the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, where he played a role in many of the prominent water works of the west. Many of these materials are scrapbooks that document various projects in the west, such as Colorado and Utah. Gessel was involved with the Glen Canyon Dam, as well as studies done at Lake Powell, and in the Colorado River Basin. Although Gessel served in World War II, the Military documents in the collection consist of memorandums and forms dated in the 1950s and 1960s. Part of the collection deals with the USSR.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.
Preferred Citation
Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
The organizational structure used by the donor was maintained throughout the collection.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Personal MaterialsReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box | ||
| 1 | Scrapbook, European Trip |
1964 |
American Society of Civil Engineers Materials (ASCE) Materials, 1986-1990Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 2 | 1 | Minutes |
1990 |
| 2 | 2 | Minutes & Agenda |
1988-1989 |
| 2 | 3 | Correspondence |
1986-1990 |
| 2 | 4 | Depositories of Hist. Films |
|
| 2 | 5 | Status of Plagues and Local History & Heritage Committees |
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| 3 | 1 | H&H Award |
|
| 3 | 2 | Habs/HEAR |
|
| 3 | 3 | H&H Conference |
1989 |
| 3 | 4 | ASCE Awards |
|
| 3 | 5-6 | El Camino Real |
|
| 3 | 7 | ASCE Materials |
|
| 4 | 1 | Irrigation Factors, Adhoc Committee |
|
| 4 | 2 | PSIAC |
|
| 4 | 3-4 | Water Quality Management, Texas |
1968 |
| 4 | 5 | Correspondence |
1960-1962 |
| 4 | 6 | Property Assigned |
|
| 5 | 1-2 | Committee on Professional Conduct |
|
| 5 | 3 |
Wiley Agricultural Engineering Series
, Book
|
|
| 5 | 4 |
Civil Engineering Magazine
|
1964 |
| 5 | 5 |
Convocation Program
|
1952 |
| 6 | 1 | Minutes of Meeting of Board of Direction |
|
| 6 | 2 | Historic Sites |
|
| 6 | 3 | ASCE Women's Conference |
|
| 6 | 4 | ASCE Men's Program |
|
| 6 | 5 | Irrigation & Drainage Specialty Conference |
1965 |
| 7 | 1 | Utah |
|
| 7 | 2 | ASCE Officers |
|
| 7 | 3 | BYU |
|
| 7 | 4 | Board Report, Minutes |
1974 |
| 7 | 5 | Philadelphia |
|
| 7 | 6 | Faculty Advisors |
|
| 7 | 7 | ASCE Annual Reports |
1964-1966; 1974 |
| 8 | 1 | Environmental Conference |
1964 |
| 8 | 2 | Irrigation & Drainage Specialty Conference |
1954 |
| 9 | 1-2 | ASCE Pamphlets |
|
| 9 | 3 | ASCE Directories |
|
| 9 | 4 | ASCE Documents |
|
| 9 | 5 | Colorado River |
|
| 9 | 6 | Central Utah Irrigation & Drainage |
|
| 10 | 1 | Historic Biographies |
|
| 10 | 2 | Bonneville Dam |
|
| 10 | 3 | ASCE Nomination |
|
| 10 | 4 | Irrigation & Drainage |
|
| 10 | 5 | ASCE Minutes & Agenda |
1985 |
| 10 | 6 | PSW Conference |
|
| 10 | 7 | Local Landmarks |
|
| 11 | 1 | Roster Information |
|
| 11 | 2 | Pamphlets |
|
| 11 | 3 | General Data |
|
| 12 | 1 | Utah Section |
|
| 12 | 2 | Technical Data |
|
| 12 | 3 | ASCE |
2002 |
| 12 | 4 | ASCE Documents |
|
| 12 | 5 | Bureau of Reclamation |
|
| 12 | 6 | Technical Papers by Clyde D. Gessel |
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| 13 | 1-2 | ASCE News |
|
| 13 | 3 | Booklets |
|
| 14 | 1 | ASCE Rosters |
|
| 14 | 2-6 | ASCE Register |
1964-1967; 1969; 1971; 1982; 1986; 1988 |
| 15 | 1-5 | ASCE Register |
1990; 1991; 1993; 1995; 1996 |
| 16 | 1-4 | ASCE Register |
1997-2000 |
ASCE ReportsReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 17 | 1 | Sedimentation Subcommittee, PSIAC |
|
| 17 | 2 | Water Quality Materials |
|
| 17 | 3 | Water Quality Report, PSIAC |
|
| 17 | 4-5 | ASCE Materials |
|
| 18 | 1 | EPA Handbook |
|
| 18 | 2 | Prize Bridges |
1972 |
| 18 | 3 | The Winters Doctrine |
|
| 18 | 4 | Glen Canyon Report |
|
| 19 | 1 | Sedimentation Reports |
|
| 19 | 2 | Russian Water Reports |
ASCE StructuresReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 20 | 1 | ASCE Materials |
|
| 20 | 2 | Virginia Bridges |
|
| 20 | 3-4 | Joining of Rails |
|
| 21 | 1 | Pipeline Division |
|
| 21 | 2 | Coolgardie Goldfields |
|
| 21 | 3 | The Forth Bridge |
|
| 21 | 4 | Cape Cod Canal |
|
| 21 | 5 | Correspondence |
1983-1985 |
| 21 | 6 | Mississippi River Navigation |
|
| 22 | 1 | Irrigation & Drainage Division |
1966 |
| 22 | 2 | Statue of Liberty |
|
| 22 | 3 | Old Columbia Highway |
|
| 22 | 4 | Special Events |
|
| 22 | 5 | Cancus, UT Section |
|
| 22 | 6 | OCEA Award |
|
| 22 | 7 | ASCE Travel |
1964-1967 |
| 23 | 1 | Grand Coulee Dam |
|
| 23 | 2 | Fort Peck Dam |
|
| 23 | 3 | Golden Gate Bridge |
|
| 23 | 4 | Bridges of Keesevill |
|
| 23 | 5 | Belle Fourche Dam |
|
| 23 | 6 | Landmarks Manuscript |
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| 24 | 1 | Grand Coulee Dam |
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| 24 | 2 | Fort Peck Dam |
|
| 24 | 3 | Golden Gate Bridge |
|
| 24 | 4 | Bridges of Keesevill |
|
| 24 | 5 | Belle Fourche Dam |
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| 24 | 6 | Landmarks Manuscript |
ASCE Materials, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 25 | 1-4 | Russian Tour |
|
| 26 | 1 | USSR/US Technical Meeting |
|
| 26 | 2 | Russian Maps |
|
| 26 | 3 | Russian Pamphlets |
1972-1976 |
Hydrology ReportsReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 27 | 1 | Puerto Rico |
|
| 27 | 2-5 | Pacific Southwest |
1968; 1971; 1972; 1977 |
MapsReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | item | ||
| 28 | 1-2 | National Geographic Atlas of the World Poster |
|
| 28 | 3 |
South Central United States
|
1947 |
| 28 | 4 |
Antarctica
|
1963 |
| 28 | 5 |
Tourist Map of Korea
|
1982 |
| 28 | 5 |
Water Resources Development Colorado River Basin
|
1940 |
| 28 | 6 |
USAF Strategic Outline Map - Northern Hemisphere
|
1956 |
| 28 | 7 |
Ranrahirca
|
1963 |
| 28 | 8 |
Arctic Ocean GNC-1
|
1958 |
| 28 | 9 |
North Pacific Ocean GNC 6
|
1958 |
| 28 | 10 |
Caribbean Sea GNC 9
|
1958 |
| 28 | 11 |
North America GNC-2
|
1958 |
| 28 | 12 |
Southeast Asia GNC 13
|
1958 |
| 28 | 13 |
Central Asia GNC 5
|
1958 |
| 28 | 14 |
North Atlantic Ocean GNC 3
|
1958 |
CorrespondenceReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 29 | 1-7 | Correspondence |
1941-1977; 1957-1968; 1962-1966; 1967; 1970-1972 |
| 30 | 1-3 | Correspondence |
1973; 1975-1981 |
Bureau of ReclamationReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 31 | 1 | Flaming Gorge |
1956 |
| 31 | 2 | Utah Lake Investigations |
|
| 31 | 3 | Afghanistan |
|
| 31 | 4 | Central Utah Project |
|
| 31 | 5 | Soil Conservation Reports |
|
| 31 | 6 | Phreatophytes |
|
| 31 | 7 | Colorado Project |
|
| 31 | 8 | Water Basin Project |
Department of InteriorReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | |
| 32 | 1-3 | Notes |
| 32 | 4 | Projected Depletions |
Water ManagementReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | |
| 33 | 1 | Lower Colorado River Basin Project |
| 33 | 2-3 | Colorado River Basin Project |
| 34 | 1 | Notes |
| 34 | 2 | Lake Powell Levels |
| 34 | 3 | USSR Trip |
MilitaryReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 35 | 1-2 | NATO |
|
| 35 | 3-4 | Military |
1955-1965 |
| 36 | 1 | Europe Trip |
1964 |
| 36 | 2 | Military |
1966 |
| 36 | 3 | Reserve Officer Activities |
Personal MaterialsReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 37 | 1 |
Utah Magazine
|
|
| 37 | 2 | Certificates |
|
| 37 | 3 | Census |
1990 |
| 37 | 4 | Records |
|
| 37 | 5 | Notes and Photos |
|
| 38 | 1-2 | Notes |
ASCE MaterialsReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 39 | 1 | 1975 National Water Assessment Upper Colorado Region |
1976 |
| 39 | 2 | American Society of Photogrammetry (ASP) - American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) Convention |
1962-1963 |
| 39 | 3 |
Colorado River Water Quality Improvement Program
|
1974 |
| 39 | 4 | George D. Clyde, "Consolidation of Irrigation Companies" |
1954 |
| 39 | 5 |
Deep Well Disposal
|
|
| 39 | 6 | Economic Counselor's License for Thomas O. Parker |
1977 |
| 39 | 7 |
Final Report on Pressure Grouting Deer Creek Dam
|
1939-1941 |
| 39 | 8 |
First Fourteen Years of Lake Mead
|
1949 |
| 39 | 9 | Kaiprowits Environmental Impact Statement |
1975 |
| 39 | 10 | Lake Powell |
1969-1970 |
| 39 | 11 | Lake Powell Capacity Tables |
1963 |
| 39 | 12 | Pamphlets |
1941 |
| 39 | 13 |
Pictures of Meeker Dome
|
1981 |
| 39 | 14 |
Several Major Point Sources of Salt Loading in the Colorado River Basin
|
1971 |
| 39 | 15 | Telephone Directory |
1978 |
| 39 | 16 |
Water Quality Improvement Program
|
1972 |
| 39 | 17 | "Water Quality - Lake Powell" |
|
| 39 | 18 |
C. C. Tabor,
Wellton - Mohawk Drainage and the Mexican Salt Problem
|
1972 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Water resources development--West (U.S.)
Corporate Names
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Form or Genre Terms
- Correspondence
- Reports
- Scrapbooks
Finding aid prepared by Grant Herron
2009 (last modified: 2020)
