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The IHTIA surveyed the preservation needs of the historic Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike on behalf of the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike Alliance. In addition, Kemp advised a student, Peyton Elliott, who wrote a paper about the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike. The box includes correspondence, drafts of interpretive plans, meeting agendas, meeting minutes, handwritten notes, student papers, transcribed letters, clippings, preservation survey forms, and contact sheets. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: correspondence, articles, book excerpts, letters, maps, family trees, clippings, reports, budget lists, bibliographies, and handbooks. Subjects include the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, Civil War history at the turnpike, the Rich Mountain battlefield, the McDowell battlefield, road construction, Virginia history, Pocahontas County, Randolph County, and civil engineer Claude Crozet. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 14, Folder 4: seven engineering drawings (1995), three facsimile letters (1841-1848), five clippings (1995 and undated), and four maps (undated).

Kemp collected images of suspension bridges. This box includes originals and facsimiles of the following: drawings, photographs, engineering drawings, and correspondence. Subjects include bridges, suspension bridges, Charles Ellet Jr., John Roebling, James Finley, iron bridges, European suspension bridges, and suspension bridges in the United States (especially the Niagara Bridge, the Brooklyn Bridge, and bridges in Washington, DC and Pennsylvania).

Kemp collected images of suspension bridges. The box includes photographic facsimiles of materials preserved in books or at other institutions. Includes photographs, engineering drawings, drawings, and maps. Subjects include suspension bridges in Asia and Europe, especially those in Germany, France and Great Britain.

The box contains Kemp's research on suspension bridges. It includes original photographs, handwritten notes, and drawings. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: book excerpts, articles, and engineering drawings. Subjects include suspension bridges in the United States (especially Pennsylvania), Europe (especially Germany), restoring bridges, and James Dredge. The folders, "Dredge, J-1843 His patent iron bridges, "Dredge in Ulster: Suspension Bridges [N. Irelan]," and "Carrick-A-Rede Bridge" were empty and removed. The following oversize items were moved to Box 342: three engineering drawings (undated).

Kemp presented the lecture, "Thomas Paine and His Pontifical Matters," to the Newcomen Society in 1977. Includes clippings and magazine clippings, lecture drafts, correspondence, reference lists, student papers, lecture announcement, handwritten notes, photographs and illustrations. Subjects include Thomas Paine, his role in bridge construction, the Sunderland Bridge, cast iron bridges and the Newcomen Society. Highlights include drafts of Kemp's lecture, as well as a draft manuscript, "Thomas Paine and His Bridge of Common Sense," by Eric DeLony. The following oversized materials were moved to Box 342: two sheets of clippings (1982), twelve sheets of journal articles (1812), one sheet of magazine clippings (1965), one engineering drawing (undated), one book excerpt (1955-1967).