HAER Advisory Committee and Photographs of West Virginia Bridges and Other Structures (1 of 2), 1912/1991

Containers:

Box 212

Scope and content:

Kemp served on the HAER Advisory Committee. As part of his research for the committee, he collected photographs of historic bridges and other structures from West Virginia. Many of the materials Kemp collected related to R.P. Davis, a dean of West Virginia University's College of Engineering and the designer of historic bridges in West Virginia. The box includes photographs collected by Kemp and HAER committee materials, including photographic prints, photographic negatives, contact sheets, correspondence, brochures, handwritten notes, facsimile book excerpts and facsimile grant applications. Subjects include historical preservation, HAER, and historic structures (mostly bridges) in Maryland, Pennsylvania and the West Virginia counties of Gilmer, Harrison, Kanawha, Lewis, Marion, Monongalia, Preston, Taylor, Wetzel and Wood. Highlights include a 1930s-era pamphlet about the Smithsonian Museums. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 11, Folder 6: one map (1976), four sheets of clippings (1978-1979), 3 sheets of report (undated).

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