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Abstract:
Geographer and Clark University's second president
(1920-1946). Is made up mostly of correspondence from his years as president.
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Scope and Contents
The papers of Wallace W. Atwood (1872-1949),
geographer, geologist, and President of Clark University,
occupy about fifty linear feet of shelf space. The material
spans the period 1901-1946, but by far the largest amount
dates from after 1920.
These papers consist largely of correspondence, being
for the most part the official correspondence of the
President's Office for the years indicated in the Register.
One box contains materials relating to the so-called "Atwood
Controversy" of 1922-1924, including correspondence
concerning the A.A.U.P. investigation into the Atwood
administration directed by Arthur O. Lovejoy. Another box
of correspondence with various officials of the U.S.
Geological Survey documents Atwood's Rocky Mountain
researches. Several files with various members of the
Boston publishing house of Ginn and Company are concerned
with the production of various Atwood textbooks. Folders
dealing with various geography organizations give insight
into the institutional bases of American geography in the
inter-war years.
Major correspondents include such leaders in geography
and related sciences as Ellen Churchill Semple (about 300
pieces), Preston James, Kirtley F. Mather, John C. Merriam,
Roderick Peattie, Erwin Raisz, Helen Goss Thomas, and Robert
S. Yard. Correspondence with other professional
geographers, with current and former Clark graduate students
in geography, with Clark faculty members, and with many
other individuals, is also found in the collection.
Additional Atwood materials held in the Clark
University Archives and not listed here include photographs
and copies of his major publications. Newspaper clippings
concerning Atwood and the University of his time are mounted
in a series of annual scrapbooks, arranged chronologically
by year, and indexed. Other manuscript material may be
found in related collections, especially the records of the
Graduate School of Geography covering the period.
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