Tygart Dam Manuscript Drafts and Correspondence

Containers:

Box 241

Scope and content:

Kemp wrote the book, Building Tygart Dam: A New Deal Public Works Project for the Pittsburgh District of the USACE although the USACE did not publish the book. The box contains Kemp's preparations for the manuscript, including drafts of the book, handwritten notes, correspondence, and a compact disc of photographs. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: photographic prints, correspondence, engineering drawings, and clippings. Subjects include the Tygart River Valley, Tygart Dam and Reservoir, Tygart Lake, fish at Tygart Lake, the Monongahela River, the New Deal-era Public Works Administration, the Pittsburgh Flood Commission, and the Pittsburgh District of the USACE, dams as navigational tools, dams as flood control measures, dams as environmental restoration areas dams as recreational areas, and revising and publishing the Tygart Dam manuscript. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 12, Folder 8: two brochures (2001 and undated).

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