Kemp's Family, West Virginia University Affilliations, and Conference Presentations, 1909/2006, bulk 1953/2006

Containers:

Box 341

Scope and content:

Kemp corresponded with his family, with West Virginia University, and with professional organizations of engineers. He also presented papers, workshops, and addresses at a number of conferences. The box includes photographic prints, photographic contact sheets, brochures, correspondence, handwritten notes, clippings, award certificates, resumes, booklets, draft and final copies of conference papers and speeches, conference programs, and reports. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: bound copies of the United States Congressional Series Set, book excerpts, scholarly journals, speeches, ephemera, and clippings. Subjects include historic preservation, the history of engineering, industrial archaeology, dynamic loads, Kemp's activities, public works in history, coal and coke production, work for HAER, the IHTIA, the West Virginia University School of Engineering, the West Virginia University College of Arts and Sciences, civil engineering, and Kemp's military career and Fulbright scholarship. Highlights include a letter from Governor Gaston Caperton requesting Kemp's presence at a meeting on West Virginia's relationship to Russia, photographs of Kemp as an adolescent, letters between Kemp and his parents from when he was serving in the military, and Kemp's original application for the Fulbright scholarship. The following oversize items were moved to Box 342: eight sheets of correspondence (1955), and eleven sheets of clippings (1999-2000).

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