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Materials were originally housed with Kemp's research on United States bridge patents, which may have been collected in preparation for articles and books including American Bridge Patents: The First Century (1790-1890). This box includes photographs, photo negatives, reports, and facsimile advertisements and directories. Subjects include bridges, the patenting process, patents housed at the Smithsonian, and bridge companies.

Kemp maintained research files about bridges and assisted in planning the historical marker about the Brownsville Cast Iron Arch Bridge (also called the Dunlap's Creek Bridge) in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. The box includes correspondence, photographic prints, photographic slides, scholarly journal articles, reports, student papers, event programs and newsletters. The box also includes the following facsimiles: correspondence, reports, photographs, journal articles, book excerpts, clippings and engineering drawings. Subjects include the Brownsville Cast Iron Arch Bridge, bridges of Europe and North America, engineering, railroad bridges, the history of bridge architecture in the United States and bridge construction. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 11, Folder 4: one map (1987), ten sheets of clippings (1883-1885 and undated), and three engineering drawings (1987 and undated).

Kemp maintained research files on bridges in North America and Europe. The box includes reports, handwritten notes, clippings, correspondence, brochures, event programs, journal articles, and newsletters. The box also includes the following facsimile items: book excerpts, clippings, correspondence, journal articles and engineering drawings. Subjects include iron arch bridges; railroad bridges; French bridges; truss bridges; bridges in Quebec, Canada; bridges in Wisconsin, Washington, Iowa, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and Hawaii in the United States; bridge disasters; girders; and dams. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 11, Folder 3: 15 sheets of clippings (1979-1983), 2 brochures (undated), 22 sheets of facsimile engineering drawings (1858-1983).

Kemp researched Ohio canal commissioners for his publications and restoration projects. Contains facsimile index sheets, maps, government reports and court hearings. Subjects include canals, Ohio canals, Ohio public works, the Miami Conservancy District, etc. Organizations include the Board of Canal Commissioners for the Ohio Canal and the Board of Public Works of Ohio.

Kemp conducted research on canals. The box includes pamphlets, a postcard, a ticket, lecture notices, and bound copies of the United States Congressional Series Set. Subjects include canals, boats, dams, rivers, lock tender houses, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Canada and West Virginia. The following oversize items have been moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 4, Folder 3: Fifty-four pamphlets (1971-1999 and undated), one map (undated), three newspapers (1975-1982).

Kemp conducted research on canals. The box includes facsimile maps, magazines, pamphlets, and a letter to Kemp from the American Canal Society and additional correspondence. It includes an Outlet Locks Restoration Study and Site Analysis and Mitigation Plan for the Delaware & Raritan (D&R) Canal. The box also includes USACE Cultural Resource Survey on Lockhaven and Lockport, the International Canal Monuments List, clippings, book on Thames & Severn Canal, etc. The following items have been moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 4, Folder 3: eight engineering drawings (1980-1990, undated) and one clipping (1979).

Contains materials related to Kemp's book Canal Terminology of the United States (co-written with Kemp's student and colleague, Thomas F. Hahn): correspondence, book draft, contracts, photographs and facsimile book excerpts. Subjects include boats, canals and the book. The following oversize materials were moved to Box 343: Two photographs (undated).

Kemp maintained research materials about cement and concrete. This box includes reports, clippings, correspondence, and photographic prints. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: book excerpts, clippings, meeting bulletins, handwritten notes, and reports. Subjects include the civil engineer Canvass White, hydraulic cement, lime, mortar, concrete, Portland cement, and the cement industries in New York, Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania (especially Lehigh County). The following oversized item was moved to Box 343: one chart (undated).

Kemp maintained research materials about cement and concrete. This box includes research notecards and his bibliography History of Concrete, 30 B.C. to 1926 A.D.: Annotated. The box also includes facsimile book excerpts and facsimile reports. Subjects include concrete, natural cement, limestone, lime, hydraulic cement, and mortar. Highlights include Thomas Hahn's dissertation, "The Industrial Archeology of the Shepherdstown, West Virginia Site as a Case Study of the Natural Cement Industry of the Upper Potomac Valley."

This box includes Kemp's research on Charles Ellet Jr. and the Wheeling Suspension Bridge in preparation for a variety of publications and before he documented the structure of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge. Box includes facsimiles of the following: correspondence, book excerpts, bound copies of the United States Congressional Series Set, engineering drawings and clippings. The box also includes transcribed correspondence and clippings, original photographs, original correspondence and handwritten notes. Subjects include Charles Ellet Jr., the Wheeling Suspension Bridge, suspension bridges in South America, cables in a suspension bridge, and the process for convincing Congress to fund a bridge project. Correspondents include Ellet, wife Elvira or "Ellie," Henry Moore, and Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company.