CLARK, Joseph Sill, 1901-1990



Courtesy U.S. Senate Historical Office

Guide to Research Collections

Boise State University Library
Boise, ID
Papers: Correspondence in Frank Church papers, 1941-1984. Finding aid.


Broadcast Pioneers Library
University of Maryland Hornbake Library
College Park, MD
Papers: 4 audiotapes (1966-1968) in Westinghouse Broadcasting Company collection, 1945-1981.


Columbia University
Oral History Project
New York, NY
Oral History: 1978. 29 leaves. Reminiscences of election to U.S. Senate; support of international disarmament, world peace through world law; relationship with Presidents Kennedy and Johnson; Adlai Stevenson’s role in American politics; impressions of various members of Congress. Acquired from Former Members of Congress, Inc. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce.


Hagley Museum and Library
Greenville, DE
Papers: In John J. Raskob, Democratic National Committee papers, 1928-1938.


Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Papers: 1947-1968 (bulk 1956-1968). 44 linear feet. Chiefly documents Senate career including campaigns. Correspondence and memoranda relate to disarmament, United Nations, Vietnam, and other matters before the Foreign Relations Committee. Includes constituent correspondence, press releases, speeches, clippings, legislative files, voting record, television scripts and tapes (1959-1967), principally of a program done with Senator Hugh Scott. A small amount of material pertains to political activities prior to Senate service.


John F. Kennedy Library
Boston, MA
Oral History: 1965. 92 pages. Permission required to cite or quote.


Library of Congress
Manuscript Division
Washington, DC
Oral History: 1978. 29 pages. Association of Former Members of Congress.


Penn State University
Historical Collections and Labor Archives
University Park, PA
Television show. Interviewee on the program “Your Senator’s Report,” 1960-1967.



Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Harrisburg, PA
Papers: 1954-1964. .3 foot. Correspondence, press releases, telegrams, photographs, and TV political scripts contained in various collections. Finding aid.


Radcliffe College
Schlesinger Library
Cambridge, MA
Papers: Correspondence in Emma Guffey Miller papers, 1887-1970 (bulk 1920-1970).


Swarthmore College
Peace Collection
Swarthmore, PA
Papers: Correspondence in World Association of World Federalists, United Nations Office records, 1967-1982; Abraham Egnal papers, 1949-1968 (bulk 1960-1968); Consortium on Peace, Research, Education, and Development records, 1970-[ongoing]; and Albert Bigelow papers, 1956-1961.


Temple University Libraries
Urban Archives
Philadelphia, PA
Papers: Ca. 45 letters; correspondence in Walter Massey Phillips papers, 1927-1978; a petition in Citizens Committee to Recall Rizzo records, 1976; in National Association for the Advancement of Colored People records, Philadelphia Branch records, 1943-1963; and Americans for Democratic Action, Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter records, 1947-1967.

Oral History: Interview and transcript in Walter Massey Phillips Oral History Project, 1975-1980.

Research Libraries Information Network In addition to the institutions listed above, items are also cataloged in collections at: Harvard Law School Library, Cambridge, MA; Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY; University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library, Ann Arbor, MI; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and Yale University, New Haven, CT.