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Kemp maintained research materials about concrete and collaborated on a number of reports about concrete slabs, including the report "Historic Flat Slab Floor System" which he wrote with Fe Hoong Sim. The box includes Kemp's research materials, including correspondence, reports, handwritten notes, newsletters, photographic prints, bibliographies, and scholarly journal articles. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: book excerpts, maps, memorandums, photographic prints, and scholarly journal articles. Subjects include concrete slabs, slab-spandrel torsion, concrete bridges, concrete arch bridges, and preservation of bridges. Highlights include Kemp's HABS field notebook on the Bridgeport Lamp Chimney Company Bowstring Concrete Arch Bridge. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 12, Folder 2: one brochure (undated), three engineering drawings (undated), four sheets of facsimile photographs (undated), and three sheets of clippings (1905-1908).

Kemp maintained trade catalogues about the history of concrete for research purposes. This box includes one original booklet and many facsimile book excerpts. Subjects include concrete, reinforced concrete, companies that patented concrete mixtures, and construction. Highlights include a brochure for the Bush Train Shed at Detroit, Michigan, published in 1914.

Kemp conducted an inventory of covered bridges across West Virginia and organized the folders in this box by bridge. Robert Seese, Kemp's student, assisted in the survey. Box includes photographs, clippings, maps, engineering drawings, reports and lists of measurements. Subjects include covered bridges of West Virginia, including covered bridges in the counties of Pocahontas, Barbour, Greenbrier, Harrison, Jackson, Lewis, Marion and Monroe. Highlights include NRHP nomination forms for a majority of the bridges and Virginia Antiquities Commission Historic Properties Inventory reports for a majority of the bridges. The following oversized items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 4, Folder 10: three sheets of newspaper (1975-1979), three maps (1958 and undated), seven engineering drawings (1974 and undated), 1 magazine clipping (1978). The following two folders were empty and removed: "Philippi Covered Bridge—Barbour County" and "Barrackville Covered Bridge—Marion County."

Materials prepared for inventory of covered bridges in West Virginia in partnership with Robert Seese, Kemp's student. Includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, pamphlets, handwritten notes, newsletters, postcards, reports and engineering drawings. Subjects include covered bridges across the United States, covered bridges in the West Virginia counties of Wetzel and Pocahontas, and the inventory of covered bridges. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 5, Folder 1: fifteen newspaper sheets (1970-1982), one magazine clipping (undated), four engineering drawings (undated), two pamphlets (1972 and undated), seven maps (1970 and undated), and three placemats (undated).

Kemp collected materials in preparation for a survey of the restoration required for covered bridges across West Virginia. The box includes correspondence, photographs, reports and report drafts, brochures, facsimile book excerpts, student papers, engineering drawings, clippings, journal articles, pamphlets, maps, bibliographies. Subjects include covered bridges across the United States, especially in West Virginia. Highlights include NRHP nomination reports for the following covered bridges: Hokes Mill, Indian Creek, Fletcher, Rooting Creek, Simpson Creek/W.T. Law, Sarvis Fork/Sandyville, Dents Run, Laurel Creek, Locust Creek, Fish Creek and Carrollton. The following oversized items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 5, Folder 2: two facsimile photographs (1930 and undated), one map (undated), fourteen sheets of clippings (1981-1993); three sheets of engineering drawings (undated), three sheets of lists of data (1965), one pamphlet (1993), two book jackets (circa 1992).

Kemp studied the Old Croton Aqueduct with student Ed Winant as part of Winant's dissertation. The research culminated in the article "John Jervis and the Hydraulic Design of the Old Croton Aqueduct" in the journal Canal History and Technology Proceedings. Kemp also advised on the exhibit "The Old Croton Aqueduct: Rural Resources Meet Urban Needs" at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, Westchester County, New York. He also campaigned for Old Croton to become a National Historic Landmark. This box includes preparation materials, including reports, correspondence, draft reports, student papers, brochures, notes, and engineering drawings. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: engineering drawings, reports, book excerpts, articles, clippings, and serials. Subjects include the Croton Aqueduct in New York City, New York; the Washington Aqueduct serving Washington, D.C.; Roman aqueducts; John B. Jervis; construction of the Erie Canal; waterworks in New York; the training of civil engineers; the process for publishing the paper; concrete and mortar; and siphons. The following oversize items were moved to Box 344: twenty engineering drawings (undated) and one chart (undated).

Kemp studied the Old Croton Aqueduct with student Ed Winant as part of Winant's dissertation. The research culminated in the article "John Jervis and the Hydraulic Design of the Old Croton Aqueduct" in the journal Canal History and Technology Proceedings. Kemp also advised on the exhibit "The Old Croton Aqueduct: Rural Resources Meet Urban Needs" at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, Westchester County, New York. He also campaigned for Old Croton to become a National Historic Landmark. The box includes reports, report drafts, event programs, notes, advertisements, brochures, exhibit proposals, bibliographies, engineering drawings, handwritten reports, and scholarly journal articles. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: photographic prints, book excerpts, drawings, reports, maps, engineering drawings, budget lists, agreements and contracts, articles, lists of people, and clippings. Subjects include the effect of the Croton Aqueduct in New York City, New York; John B. Jervis; the training of United States civil engineers; New York City water and hydraulic systems; the hydraulic grade line; aqueducts in New York; European aqueducts; the Manhattan Valley, the Harlem Valley, and French hydraulic engineers like Antoine de Chézy and Pierre Louis Georges DuBuat. Highlights include the National Historic Site nomination form for the Old Croton Aqueduct.

Kemp prepared a historic structures report and consulted on the restoration of the Delaware Aqueduct Bridge ("Roebling's Bridge"), the oldest wire suspension bridge in the United States. He partnered with A.G. Lichtenstein & Associates, Inc. on the multi-million-dollar restoration, and the project received a presidential award from President Ronald Reagan. This box includes materials used in his consultation, including correspondence, notes, engineering drawings, charts and test results, contracts, budgets, reports and report drafts, newsletters, clippings, press releases, photographic prints, brochures, invitations, and travel ephemera. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: engineering drawings, photographic prints, correspondence, charts, book excerpts, clippings, press releases, notes, and travel ephemera. Subjects include the Delaware Aqueduct that stretches from Minisink Ford, Sullivan County, New York to Lackawaxen, Pike County, Pennsylvania; the Delaware and Hudson Canal in New York and Pennsylvania; the cities of Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania and High Falls, Ulster County, New York; the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, New York; the Upper Delaware River; the Zane Grey House in Lackawaxen; John A. Roebling; E.H. Huber of the Lackawaxen Bridge Company; cables of suspension bridges; cement types in the aqueduct; and the NPS's takeover of the bridge. Highlights include the Mohawk-Hudson Area HAER Survey. The following oversize items have been moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 15, Folder 4: fifteen engineering drawings (1983 and undated), one chart (1983), and twenty-one sheets of clippings (1979-1983).

Kemp donated materials as background research for the West Virginia and Regional History Center exhibit, "The Structure of History: Celebrating Industrial Heritage and Preservation in the Emory L. Kemp Collection." He also donated materials he felt could be displayed in the exhibit. The box includes brochures, books, magazine clippings, a facsimile magazine clipping, and a photographic print in a frame. Subjects include bridges of West Virginia and Pennsylvania and Dr. Emory Kemp. Highlights include a piece of the original wire from the Wheeling Suspension Bridge in Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, and a brochure about the IHTIA. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 15, Folder 5: forty-six engineering drawings (1992-1997), four drawings (1990 and undated), and one poster (1849).