Clark University Archives
The materials in the Clark University Archives are housed in the Archives and Special
Collections Department, which is located on the Ground Floor of the Robert H. Goddard Library
at Clark University. The archives contains the non-current records of Clark University.
As such, it serves as the home for Clark's institutional memory and an excellent
place to learn about the history of Clark University.
The archives includes the papers of the founder, Jonas Clark. It also includes the papers
of the Clark University's presidents, including the Dr. Wallace W. Atwood Collection and the
Dr. G. Stanley Hall Collection. The Hall Collection contains information about Sigmund Freud's
and Carl Jung's lectures at Clark University. These lectures by Freud were the only ones he
ever gave in the Western Hemisphere.
The archives also includes the documents of the various departments of the university and
the papers of some of Clark's faculty members. The most noteworthy is the Dr. Robert H. Goddard
Collection, which contains 6,000 different visual materials and 107 linear feet of materials
that Dr. Goddard and his wife created to document his experiments with rocketry. It also
includes over 250 books about Goddard, rockets, and space flight. Robert Goddard was a physicist
who is known as the "Father of Modern Rocketry" because all space rockets have parts that he
devised while doing his pioneering theoretical and experimental research about rockets and space
flight. He conducted his studies while a professor at Clark University from 1914 until shortly
before his death in 1945. Another former professor whose papers are in the archives is the
historian and diplomat George Blakeslee.
Some materials in the archives, such as the records of the Board of Trustees, are closed to
public access. Most items, however, such as university catalogs, yearbooks, student newspapers,
and photographs, have no access restrictions. Although most of the items housed in the archives
are paper documents of some sort, there are many other types of materials here, from
daguerreotypes
and glass plate negatives to a brick from President Hall's house on campus, which is where Freud
and Jung stayed during their visit to Clark.
The items in this collection do not circulate, but may be examined upon request.
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Additional Resources
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Office Hours
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Monday,Wednesday, and Thursday
9:30am - 4:00pm
and by appointment
Closed Holidays and Weekends
It is recommended that you contact our office prior to traveling to the library.
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