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Kemp co-wrote the book Cement Mills along the Potomac River with Thomas F. Hahn. The box includes preparation for the book, such as documents from the research process and studies of structures built with natural cement. The box includes correspondence, essay drafts, clippings, brochures, handwritten notes, curriculum vitae, magazines, photographic prints, engineering drawings, and reports. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: clippings, handwritten notes, photographic prints, correspondence, drawings, engineering drawings, maps, photographic prints and book excerpts. Subjects include the natural cement industry; mills along the Potomac Valley; limes; concretes; hydraulic mortar and lime; the Alexandria Canal; Maskell C. Ewing; William Turbull; cement kilns; the history of Shepherdstown, West Virginia; the Shepherdstown Cement Mill in Shepherdstown, West Virginia; Saylor Park Cement Industry Museum in Coplay, Pennsylvania; and the C&O Canal. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 13, Folder 2: 1 brochure (undated), 1 map (undated), and three sheets of clippings (1985).

Kemp maintained research files on bridges and engineering. The box includes facsimile book excerpts and facsimile engineering drawings. Subjects include railroad bridges, truss bridges, historic structures, the history of civil engineering and mechanics.

Kemp worked with Paul D. Marshall & Associates, Inc. to document and suggest restoration of the Friendship House in Washington, D.C. and Hubbard House in Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia. The box also includes Kemp's research materials. The box includes reports, notes, pamphlets, and student papers. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: engineering drawings, book excerpts, and correspondence. Subjects include the Wheeling Custom House (also known as West Virginia Independence Hall) in Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia; Saint Anthony Falls Hydraulic Laboratory in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; Roman aqueducts; other ancient aqueducts; and other ancient aqueduct systems (it appears that Paul D. Marshall & Associates, Inc. did not study Roman hydraulics, and therefore the materials from Paul D. Marshall & Associates, Inc. are not related to the research on Roman hydraulics). Highlights include a facsimile NRHP nomination for the United States Custom House at Norfolk.

Kemp was the chief engineer for the restoration of the Philippi Covered Bridge in Philippi, West Virginia after it suffered damage from a 1989 fire. He worked with the Philippi Covered Bridge Restoration Committee, the West Virginia Division of Highways and Paul D. Marshall & Associates, Inc. Includes newsletters, clippings, programs from events, press releases, reports, engineering drawings, technical manuals, photographs, expense lists, meeting minutes and correspondence. Subjects include the bridge and its physical structure; its role in the Civil War; the bridge's designer, Lemuel Chenoweth; and a covered bridge in California (likely the Bridgeport Covered Bridge in Bridgeport). The following oversized items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 6, Folder 4: fourteen engineering drawings (1938, 1989, and undated),three drawings (1861), and forty-six sheets of clippings (1989-1991).

Kemp co-wrote and edited the compendium, American Bridge Patents: The First Century (1790-1890). This box includes draft and research materials for the book, as well as research on other bridges. The box includes draft sections of the book, grant proposals, correspondence, articles, HAER reports, budget lists, photographs, contact sheets and slides. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: photographs, engineering drawings and patent applications. Subjects include the early patenting process for bridges; railroad bridges; suspension bridges; bridges of Ohio and Pennsylvania; fink truss bridges; the Zoarville Station Bridge in Tuscarawas County, Ohio; truss frames of bridges; iron girders; and publishing the survey of early bridge patents. Highlights include a pamphlet The Repertory of Patent Inventions written in 1828. The following oversize items were moved to Box 344: eight sheets of engineering drawings (1992).

Kemp wrote the book American Bridge Patents: The First Century (1790-1890) with the assistance of Eric DeLong, Shelley Maddex and Larry Sypolt. The box includes book section drafts, especially of the first essay in the book, "Patents Punctuate the History of 19th Century Bridges." The box also includes handwritten notes, correspondence and photographic prints, along with facsimiles of the following: patent applications, engineering drawings, and book excerpts. Subjects include the patent process for bridge technology, West Virginia bridges, and truss bridges.

Kemp collected drawings and card-mounted photographs as pictorial reference for research. Subjects include structures from Europe and the United States, including bridges, railroad bridges, canals, cathedrals, lighthouses, mills, rivers, and turpentine distillery. The Antietam mills, B&O Railroad, Erie Canal, Menai Strait, Schuylkill River, Susquehanna River, the city of Conway, Wales and the city of Wheeling, West Virginia each appear in multiple drawings.

Kemp collected drawings as pictorial reference for research. Subjects include structures from Europe and the United States, including bridges, railroad bridges, villages, coal towns and piers. The Conway Tubular Bridge in Conway, Wales and the city of Richmond, Virginia both appear in multiple drawings.