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Kemp wrote the book, Taming the Muskingum about navigation on the Muskingum River in Ohio. The box contains research materials, including facsimile student thesis, correspondence, photos, pamphlets, articles, book excerpts, maps and clippings, etc. Subjects include recreation on the Muskingum River, development of the Ohio River, Muskingum River navigation, the Muskingum Water Conservancy District, the Fairmont High Level Bridge, steamboats, and dams. Highlights include a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark Nomination for the Muskingum River Navigation System and a draft copy of the book, Taming the Muskingum. The following oversize materials were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 3, Folder 8: four pamphlets of the Muskingum Watershed District Recreation and Map Guide, Facsimile pamphlet, New Philadelphia Self-Guided Tours, Illinois Waterway USACE (1996-2000 and undated), clippings (2000), and one sheet organizational chart (1934).

Kemp wrote the book, Taming the Muskingum about navigation on the Muskingum River in Ohio. This box contains his research, including a floppy disk, book copy edits, handwritten notes, and facsimile illustrations for the book. Also includes a typescript on the Big Sandy Navigation, a facsimile report of the 1875 survey of the Big Sandy River, a Chief of Engineers report, and biographical reports on Stephen Long, Ben Franklin Thomas, and William Emery Merrill. Highlights include an unbound copy of the pages for Taming the Muskingum.

Kemp wrote the book, Taming the Muskingum about navigation on the Muskingum River in Ohio. The box contains research materials. Formats includes USACE reports, plans, specifications, articles, clippings, etc. Subjects include, the Muskingum Watershed, Dover Dam, the Beach City Dam, Muskingum flood control, Ohio canals, and soil analysis by the U.S. Engineering Soil Lab.

Kemp wrote the book, Taming the Muskingum about navigation on the Muskingum River in Ohio. The box contains research, including facsimile USACE reports, dam tender instructions, data, and notes. Subjects include dams along the Muskingum River, flood control in the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District, etc. The following oversize materials were moved to Box 342: nine sheets contract for transfer of ownership (circa 1953), one sheet facsimile note (undated), and two sheets facsimile cost estimates (undated).

Kemp wrote the book, Taming the Muskingum about navigation on the Muskingum River in Ohio. The box includes his research materials, including correspondence, booklets, reports, studies, facsimile articles, facsimile reports, and facsimile correspondence. Subjects include the Muskingum River and the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District, the Ohio River, locks and dams, building along the waterway and insurance claims. The following oversize materials were moved to Box 342: one reservoir data sheet (January 1944), and one map (1970).

Kemp wrote the book, Taming the Muskingum about navigation on the Muskingum River in Ohio. The box contains his research, including photo negatives and photo prints of locks, dams, the Mohawk, Pleasant Hill, Tappan, Leesville, Atwood, Charles Mill and Mohicanville reservoirs, flood sites, lockkeeper's houses, boats, etc. The following oversize material was moved to Box 342: one sheet of Muskingum River Traffic Data sheet (undated).

Kemp wrote the book, Taming the Muskingum about navigation on the Muskingum River in Ohio. The box contains research materials, including drafts for the text Taming the Muskingum, a list of "current publication commitments for Dr. Emory Kemp," and facsimile photos of dams along the Muskingum. The following oversize material was moved to Box 342: one facsimile data sheet (undated).

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's consulting business, Past and Present, was contracted by the NRCS (formerly the SCS) to prepare HABS/HAER-like records of historic structures that would potentially be impacted by the construction of a multipurpose dam on the North Fork Hughes River in Ritchie County, West Virginia. This box includes research materials he used in preparing the records, including photographic prints, handwritten notes, correspondence, and reports. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: book excerpts, articles, reports, clippings, maps, and bibliographies. Subjects include natural gas; carbon black; oil; mineral resources; the Hughes River; Pleasants County, West Virginia; Wood County, West Virginia; Ritchie County, West Virginia; the railroad in Ritchie County and general West Virginia geography and soil composition. The following oversize items were moved to Box 344: five maps (1918 and 1994).

Kemp wrote a report entitled "New Jersey Statewide Historic Bridge Survey." The box includes his research materials and a draft of the report, including correspondence, handwritten notes, photographs, data lists, budget lists and invoices. The box also includes the following facsimile items: book excerpts, invoices, maps, and engineering drawings. Subjects include the historic bridges of New Jersey, highways and canals of New Jersey and transportation systems in the United States. Highlights include HAER reports about Lowthorp Truss Bridge in Clinton, New Jersey; the Lower Bank Road Bridge in Egg Harbor City, New Jersey; and the Fink Through Truss Bridge in Hamden, New Jersey.