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The USACE appointed Kemp to document locks and dams along the Kanawha River and nominate them for the NRHP. Kemp's research culminated in the book, The Great Kanawha Navigation. This box includes materials from his research, including facsimile articles and book excerpts, reports, maps, engineering drawings, photos, fact sheets/safety briefings, etc. Subjects include Gallipolis, London, Winfield, and Marmet locks and dams; Electrical equipment along the Kanawha; Huntington District Cultural Resources; Tainter Gate construction; Federal Power Commission Licenses, etc. Highlights include a NRHP nomination for Gallipolis Locks and Dam. The following items were moved to Box 342: nine facsimile maps of River and Harbor Works of Huntington, WV District (undated); two charts of Waterborne Commerce of the United States (1975) , six facsimile engineering drawings of Lock and Dams near Brownstown (undated).

Kemp published books and scholarly articles throughout his career. This box contains copies of his publications, including scholarly articles, books, and scholarly book reviews of his books. The box also includes facsimile scholarly articles and book reviews. Subjects include historic preservation; engineering; industrial archaeology; historic bridges; and historic structures in Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. Highlights include an article Kemp wrote early in his career (1955) about American bridge designing The following oversize item was moved to Box 344: one clipping (2000).

Kemp published articles on engineering and on the history of technology, and his publications were cited in other books and articles. Pertaining to that work, the box includes Kemp's correspondence, event programs, speeches about Kemp, reports, report drafts, clippings, journal articles, and brochures. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: book excerpts, correspondence, photographic prints, drawings, engineering drawings, and charts. Subjects include torsion, concrete, industrial preservation, suspension bridges, and structures of the British Isles. Highlights include a draft of Kemp's paper, "Edinburgh's First Water Supply: the Comiston Aqueduct, 1689-1721." The following oversized items were moved to Box 344: 16 oversize facsimile photographs (undated).

This box contains materials about Kemp, including his obituary and funeral program. It includes published works in magazines and clippings. The following items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 1, Folder 2: Nine clippings about Kemp restoring bridges (1991-2002), one Arup blueprint of High Court Blantyre - Nyasaland (undated).

Kemp corresponded with his family, with West Virginia University, and with professional organizations of engineers. He also presented papers, workshops, and addresses at a number of conferences. The box includes photographic prints, photographic contact sheets, brochures, correspondence, handwritten notes, clippings, award certificates, resumes, booklets, draft and final copies of conference papers and speeches, conference programs, and reports. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: bound copies of the United States Congressional Series Set, book excerpts, scholarly journals, speeches, ephemera, and clippings. Subjects include historic preservation, the history of engineering, industrial archaeology, dynamic loads, Kemp's activities, public works in history, coal and coke production, work for HAER, the IHTIA, the West Virginia University School of Engineering, the West Virginia University College of Arts and Sciences, civil engineering, and Kemp's military career and Fulbright scholarship. Highlights include a letter from Governor Gaston Caperton requesting Kemp's presence at a meeting on West Virginia's relationship to Russia, photographs of Kemp as an adolescent, letters between Kemp and his parents from when he was serving in the military, and Kemp's original application for the Fulbright scholarship. The following oversize items were moved to Box 342: eight sheets of correspondence (1955), and eleven sheets of clippings (1999-2000).

Kemp authored and co-authored many articles and reports, and chaired committees that generated reports. This box includes facsimiles of some of Kemp's published scholarly articles and conference proceedings, unpublished copies of conference papers and articles, facsimile engineering drawings and newsletters. Subjects include the Wheeling Suspension Bridge in Wheeling, West Virginia; the Weston and Gauley Bridge Turnpike in Burnsville, West Virginia; concrete; suspension bridges; reconstruction of suspension bridges; industrial archaeology; bridge beams and frames; beam torsion; and the research process in a university setting. The following oversize item was moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 10, Folder 2: one clipping (1991).

Kemp wrote the article "The Little Kanawha Navigation" for the journal Canal History and Technology Proceedings. This box contains reseasrch materials, including facsimile reports, correspondence, articles, book excerpts, magazines, clippings, bibliographies, photos, handwritten notes, oral history transcriptions, cost sheets, etc. Subjects include the Little Kanawha Navigation, river traffic, boats, shipping, Gilmer County history, Burning Springs, Burnsville Dam, inland waterways, locks, covered bridges, the West Virginia General Assembly, etc. Highlights include 1907 freight ticket and steam vessel inspection application, a 1908 correspondence regarding the steamboat inspection service, and Larry Sypolt's list of Little Kanawha boats. The following items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 2, Folder 2-3: thirty-seven facsimile clippings (1860-1930, 1987), nine pages of facsimile steamboat shipping bills (1874-1899, two facsimiles of Hardesty's Encyclopedia entries for Kanawha, Calhoun, and Wirt Counties (1889), four facsimile maps (1937, 2003, undated), facsimile data sheets and inspection certificates (1876), and one brochure (1975).

Kemp wrote the article "The Little Kanawha Navigation" for the journal Canal History and Technology Proceedings. This box contains research materials, including mostly facsimile clippings, reports, handwritten correspondence, allotments, operational expenses, river traffic data, pamphlets, itineraries, magazines, grant applications, research notes, photographs, government documents etc. Subjects include USACE, Work Project Administration, Colonel Thomas Tavenner, Johnson Newlon Camden, Sam Hays, Little Kanawha Navigation, locks, the history of the Huntington District, Burnsville folk studies, Wirt County, steamboats, oil springs, the Flood Control Act of 1936. Highlights include West Virginia Division of Highways reports on Creston and Little Kanawha River locks, shipping tickets, toll notes, and bound copies of the United States Congressional Series Set, dated between 1839 and 1880. The following items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 2, Folder 4: approximately fifty sheets of facsimile newspapers (1865-1984), two facsimile maps (undated), and The River-The West Virginia Hillbilly Publication (1976).

Kemp wrote the article "The Little Kanawha Navigation" for the journal Canal History and Technology Proceedings. This box contains his research materials, including photos, drawings, and illustrations from the Cam DePue Collection. Includes slides, negatives, facsimile shipping cost sheets, a book, facsimile maps, correspondence, and bound copies of the United States Congressional Series Set. Subjects include boats and locks on the Little Kanawha River, the United States Geological Survey, water supply of the Ohio River Basin, and reservoirs. Highlights include early twentieth century postcards of the Little Kanawha River, pamphlets on poplar lumber inspection, early twentieth century payroll checks and invoices from work on railroads. The following oversize items were moved to Box 342: three maps (1930), six engineering drawings (1930).