Research on Transportation Systems, 1889/2017

Containers:

Box 297

Scope and content:

Kemp conducted research on land and water transportation systems and published on the subject, including the book Transportation and Technology, which included essays on the history of technology and transportation. The box includes a dissertation, reports, photographic prints, research notes, a calendar, correspondence, handwritten notes, clippings, and resumes. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: maps, advertisements, charts, reports, photographic prints, book excerpts, correspondence, clippings, maps and engineering drawings. Subjects include turnpikes, structures of West Virginia, waterways, Kemp's book Taming the Muskingum, the Little Kanawha River, and bridges. Highlights include a HAER nomination form for the West Oil Company Endless-Wire Oil Pumping Rig and correspondence about Kemp's work with Fairbanks Oil Company. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 14, Folder 3: one clipping (2013), two brochures (1976), one map (1883).

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