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Kemp collected research materials in preparation for his book The Great Kanawha Navigation and HAER reports. Box includes report drafts, correspondence, facsimile journal articles, pamphlets, photographs, facsimile book excerpts, facsimile clippings, newsletters, handwritten notes, and engineering drawings. Subjects include bridges across the United States and Europe, especially in West Virginia. Highlights include a NRHP nomination form for Laughery Creek Triple Intersection Through-Truss Bridge in Buffalo, Indiana, a HAER report on Texas cable bridges, and handwritten drafts of HAER reports for the Bridgeport Lamp Chimney Company Bridge Bowstring Concrete Arch Bridge over Simpson Creek in Bridgeport, Harrison County, West Virginia. The following oversized items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 7, Folder 3: nine sheets of clippings (1992-1995). This box was originally labelled "Great Kanawha Navigation: R."

Kemp researched industrial archaeology. This box contains his materials, including pamphlets on railroads, mills, highways, barns, charcoal making, firefighting, Detroit, Wheeling and Urbana. Highlights include a Buchart Horn Inc. pamphlet on Pennsylvania transportation systems.

This box contains the following books:

This box contains the following books:

Kemp researched the Weston and Gauley Bridge Turnpike for the USACE. In addition, the IHTIA surveyed the preservation needs of the historic Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike on behalf of the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike Alliance. This box contains Kemp's research materials, including typed and handwritten notes, correspondence, and technical manuals. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: book excerpts, maps, correspondence, reports, financial statements, and clippings. Subjects include the Weston and Gauley Bridge Turnpike in Burnsville, Braxton County, West Virginia; the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike in Staunton, Virginia and Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia; Burnsville Reservoir in Burnsville, Braxton County, West Virginia; Bulltown Historic District, Braxton County, West Virginia; the Virginia Board of Public Works; and bridge construction. The following oversize item was moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 14, Folder 6: one map (undated).

This box contains the following books:

Kemp researched and reported on the history of coal and coke, eventually consulting on the restoration of the Kaymoor Coal Mine Complex (also sometimes called "Kay Moor Mine") and giving a paper on coke production at the SIA's 1974 conference. The box contains his research materials, including reports, report drafts, handwritten notes, brochures, student papers, essays, essay outlines, clippings, handwritten drafts, bibliographies, and correspondence. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: maps, handwritten notes, book excerpts, correspondence, oral histories, photographic prints, and engineering drawings. Subjects include preservation of the New River Gorge National Park in Glen Jean, West Virginia; the history and preservation of the Kaymoor Coal Mine in Fayetteville, West Virginia; Fayette County, West Virginia; the history of the coking and coal mining industries in West Virginia; the history of coal, coke, and iron history in general; preserving industrial sites; and SIA. Highlights include HAER reports of the Kaymoor Coal Mine and Kemp's essay, "Beehive-Oven Coking Operation at Bretz, West Virginia." The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 12, Folder 6: one brochure (undated), four clippings (1974-1982).

Materials were originally housed with photographs in preparation for Kemp's survey of West Virginia covered bridges. Includes presentation slides, pamphlets, clippings, lists, engineering drawings, photographs, two floppy disks, etc. Subjects include Shenandoah mills and covered bridges across the United States and the world, with special emphasis on covered bridges In West Virginia, Minnesota and Missouri. The following oversize item was moved to Box 342: one pamphlet (1988).

Kemp collected materials in preparation for a survey of the restoration required for covered bridges across West Virginia. Includes report drafts, facsimile handwritten notes, photographs, maps, correspondence, video scripts and engineering drawings. Subjects include covered bridges in West Virginia, especially the following covered bridges: Fish Creek, Herns Mill, Hokes Mill, Indian Creek, Laurel Creek and Locust Creek. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 5, Folder 6: 3 sheets of newspapers (1993).

Kemp worked with Barb Howe to establish a directory of sites pertinent to the glass industry in West Virginia as part of a book project documenting industrial archaeology in West Virginia. He also consulted on Howe's early drafts of a manuscript, "The Glass Industry in West Virginia." According to an original box description, the materials were used in research preparation for a video by the NPS on Seneca Glass Company (potentially this Seneca Glass Company documentary), although only a few facsimile materials in the box pertain to the Seneca Glass Company. The box includes reports, engineering drawings, typed notes, photographic prints, correspondence, handwritten notes, student papers, and drafts of the directory. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: book excerpts, scholarly journal articles and essay drafts. Subjects include glass production in West Virginia, the directory of sites of glass industry, glass factories, and historic bridges. Highlights include a HAER nomination form for the Seneca Glass Company Factory building. The following oversize items were moved to Box 344: three clippings (1948-1970).