Delaware Aqueduct, 1847/1988

Containers:

Box 327

Scope and content:

Kemp prepared a historic structures report and consulted on the restoration of the Delaware Aqueduct Bridge ("Roebling's Bridge"), the oldest wire suspension bridge in the United States. He partnered with A.G. Lichtenstein & Associates, Inc. on the multi-million-dollar restoration, and the project received a presidential award from President Ronald Reagan. This box includes materials used in his consultation, including correspondence, notes, engineering drawings, charts and test results, contracts, budgets, reports and report drafts, newsletters, clippings, press releases, photographic prints, brochures, invitations, and travel ephemera. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: engineering drawings, photographic prints, correspondence, charts, book excerpts, clippings, press releases, notes, and travel ephemera. Subjects include the Delaware Aqueduct that stretches from Minisink Ford, Sullivan County, New York to Lackawaxen, Pike County, Pennsylvania; the Delaware and Hudson Canal in New York and Pennsylvania; the cities of Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania and High Falls, Ulster County, New York; the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, New York; the Upper Delaware River; the Zane Grey House in Lackawaxen; John A. Roebling; E.H. Huber of the Lackawaxen Bridge Company; cables of suspension bridges; cement types in the aqueduct; and the NPS's takeover of the bridge. Highlights include the Mohawk-Hudson Area HAER Survey. The following oversize items have been moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 15, Folder 4: fifteen engineering drawings (1983 and undated), one chart (1983), and twenty-one sheets of clippings (1979-1983).

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