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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 contains materials from his research, including facsimile illustrations, maps, engineering drawings, photos, negatives, and proposals. Subjects include French barrages, weirs, the Ohio River, Gallipolis locks powerhouse. Highlights include laboratory tests on the hydraulics of Marmet locks and dams.

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 contains materials from his research, including photographic prints, correspondence, facsimile photos, and illustrations. Subjects include the publication of The Great Kanawha Navigation by the University of Pittsburgh Press, the Marmet, London, and Winfield Locks and Dams and other rolling dams, workers, the Philippi Bridge and the Wheeling Suspension Bridge. The following items have been moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 2, Folder 1: seven facsimile engineering drawings of Marmet and Gallipolis (1931-1936), and one map (undated).

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 contains materials from his research, including facsimile photos, facsimile engineering drawings, reports, facsimile book excerpts, facsimile clippings, facsimile correspondence, and work claims reports. Subjects include the St. Andrew's Bridge-Dam, locks and dams on the Kanawha River, the Gallipolis Locks and Dam, electrical power development, the Kanawha Valley Power Company, hydropower development, rolling dams, the James River, etc. Highlights include discussions of Federal Power Commission regulations. The following items have been moved to Box 342: Thirty-five sheets of facsimile engineering drawings of Kanawha River locks, dams, and power houses (1932-1933), and one engineering drawing (undated).

Kemp presented the lecture, "Thomas Paine and His Pontifical Matters," to the Newcomen Society in 1977. Includes clippings and magazine clippings, lecture drafts, correspondence, reference lists, student papers, lecture announcement, handwritten notes, photographs and illustrations. Subjects include Thomas Paine, his role in bridge construction, the Sunderland Bridge, cast iron bridges and the Newcomen Society. Highlights include drafts of Kemp's lecture, as well as a draft manuscript, "Thomas Paine and His Bridge of Common Sense," by Eric DeLony. The following oversized materials were moved to Box 342: two sheets of clippings (1982), twelve sheets of journal articles (1812), one sheet of magazine clippings (1965), one engineering drawing (undated), one book excerpt (1955-1967).

Kemp researched twentieth century suspension and cable-stayed bridges in preparation for various projects and publications. Box includes these research materials, such as clippings, slides, brochures, correspondence and facsimiles of the following: book excerpts, drawings, engineering drawings. Subjects include cable-stayed bridges and suspension bridges in the United States and Europe. There is particular attention to the Normandie Bridge in Le Havre, France; the Williamsburg Bridge in New York City, New York; and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 8, Folder 2: 12 sheets of clippings (1987), 1 brochure (undated).

Kemp wrote the book, Building Tygart Dam: A New Deal Public Works Project for the Pittsburgh District of the USACE, although the USACE did not publish the book. The box contains Kemp's preparations for the manuscript, including correspondence and drafts of the book. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: photographic prints, engineering drawings, and clippings. Subjects include the Tygart River Valley, Tygart Dam and Reservoir, Tygart Lake, fish at Tygart Lake, the Monongahela River, the New Deal-era Public Works Administration, the Pittsburgh Flood Commission, and the Pittsburgh District of the USACE, dams as navigational tools, dams as flood control measures, dams as environmental restoration areas and dams as recreational areas. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 12, Folder 8: one map (1992) and two clippings (2008).

Kemp wrote the book, Building Tygart Dam: A New Deal Public Works Project for the Pittsburgh District of the USACE although the USACE did not publish the book. The box contains Kemp's preparations for the manuscript, including drafts of the book, handwritten notes, correspondence, and a compact disc of photographs. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: photographic prints, correspondence, engineering drawings, and clippings. Subjects include the Tygart River Valley, Tygart Dam and Reservoir, Tygart Lake, fish at Tygart Lake, the Monongahela River, the New Deal-era Public Works Administration, the Pittsburgh Flood Commission, and the Pittsburgh District of the USACE, dams as navigational tools, dams as flood control measures, dams as environmental restoration areas dams as recreational areas, and revising and publishing the Tygart Dam manuscript. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 12, Folder 8: two brochures (2001 and undated).

Kemp wrote the book, Building Tygart Dam: A New Deal Public Works Project for the Pittsburgh District of the USACE, although the USACE did not publish the book. This box contains Kemp's research materials and some planning for the project, including book outlines, project progress reports, budget lists, handwritten notes, and inspection reports. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: memorandums, correspondence, engineering drawings, reports and a map. Subjects include the Tygart Dam, dams in general, arch dam designs, the City of Grafton, the Pittsburgh District for the USACE, soil erosion, flood damage and control, reservoirs, United States waterways, and hydraulic structures. Highlights include an NRHP Tygart River Reservoir Dam nomination form. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 12, Folder 8: five graphs (1934), two engineering drawings (1946), and one facsimile book excerpt (1935).

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.