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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.

Kemp conducted field work on structures in the oil fields of the Fairbank Oil Company, Canada's oldest petroleum company, and he wrote the article, "The Origins of Ontario Oil Production" with Michael Caplinger. The box includes his research materials, including booklets, postcards, stationary, pamphlets, correspondence, handwritten notes, photographs, books, compact discs, and an audiocassette. The box also includes facsimile book excerpts and student papers. Subjects include the Canadian Oil Museum in Oil Springs, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada; the town of Petrolia, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada; the oil and petroleum industry in North America (especially in Canada), and the Fairbank Oil Company. Highlights include an audiotape of a speech Kemp made to the Ontario Petroleum Institute, most likely on November 5, 2002. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 13, Folder 5: thirteen pages of a facsimile book excerpt (1996), two clippings (1999), one brochure (undated), and one drawing (1999). A student paper housed on microfilm has been separated to its own box (see Microfilm Reel 2).

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.

The IHTIA consulted on the decision about whether to preserve the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company's St. Nicholas Central Breaker near Mahoney City, Pennsylvania as a historic site. The box includes research materials, including handwritten notes, brochures, postcards, reports, correspondence and an artifact tag. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: maps, clippings, engineering drawings, handwritten notes, brochures and photographs. Subjects include the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company; Reading anthracite coal; anthracite coal in general; coal mines; coal production; the St. Nicholas Central Breaker near Mahoney City, Pennsylvania; other breakers in Pennsylvania; propane v. electricity; boxcars; and the Store and Webster Engineering Corporation. Highlights include the Huber Breaker HAER nomination form and correspondence from 1931-1932 regarding the parts of the St. Nicholas Central Breaker. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 12, Folder 5: ten sheets of notes (undated), two maps (undated), twenty-two engineering drawings (1932-1934), and one brochure (1957).

Kemp performed the Statewide Covered Bridge Preservation Survey for Pennsylvania. Includes minutes, budget lists, correspondence, draft and final contracts, reports, contracts, surveys, lists of data, research notes and facsimile court records. Subjects include covered bridges of Chester County, Pennsylvania, truss covered bridges, bridge restoration and survey design. Correspondents include the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), Richard Ortega and Emory Kemp. Highlights include the survey sent to assess each covered bridge across the state, preliminary results, and an NRHP nomination for "Covered Bridges of Chester County Thematic Resources." The following oversize items were moved to Box 343: twelve pages of report (1976), fifteen sheets of facsimile handwritten court records (1850-1881).

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).