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Kemp was part of the effort to restore the Dents Run Covered Bridge in Morgantown, West Virginia, and the Center Point Covered Bridge in Center Point, West Virginia. The collection includes correspondence, reports, contracts, engineering drawings and lists of measurements. Subjects include the Dents Run, Center Point and Barrackville covered bridges, covered bridge restoration in general, and testing building materials. Correspondents include Allegheny Restoration and Builders Inc., Billy Joe Peyton, Paul D. Marshall and Associates, Inc., the West Virginia Division of Highways, and Emory Kemp. Highlights include a wrapper from a can of wood epoxy. The following oversized items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 6, Folder 1: eight maps (1954, 1960, 1997 and undated), three sheets of newspaper (1982, 1998).

Kemp donated materials as background research for the West Virginia and Regional History Center exhibit, "The Structure of History: Celebrating Industrial Heritage and Preservation in the Emory L. Kemp Collection." He also donated materials he felt could be displayed in the exhibit. The box includes brochures, books, magazine clippings, a facsimile magazine clipping, and a photographic print in a frame. Subjects include bridges of West Virginia and Pennsylvania and Dr. Emory Kemp. Highlights include a piece of the original wire from the Wheeling Suspension Bridge in Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, and a brochure about the IHTIA. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 15, Folder 5: forty-six engineering drawings (1992-1997), four drawings (1990 and undated), and one poster (1849).

Kemp studied the development of the suspension bridges for the Smithsonian Institute while partnering with them on projects from 1984-2003. His research took him to Great Britain, France and Germany. The box includes correspondence, brochures, handwritten notes, bibliographies, facsimile book excerpts and facsimile drawings. Subjects include suspension bridges in France, Great Britain and the United States, the Lehigh Valley and the Juniata Crossing Chain Bridge in particular, James Finley, Samuel Brown, Marc Seguin, the Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company, and navigation along the Rhône River. Correspondents include Don Sayenga. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 8, Folder 3: 2 pages of correspondence (1984), 1 sheet research institution pull slip (undated); 1 sheet of an article (1984); 1 brochure (undated), 10 pages bibliography (undated).

Kemp and his student, Ed Winant, studied early hydraulic systems in Edinburgh, Scotland. They also studied the Old Croton Aqueduct in New York City, New York. Kemp and Winant attempted to publish articles based on their work, and eventually published "John Jervis and the Hydraulic Design of the Old Croton Aqueduct" in the journal Canal History and Technology Proceedings and "Edinburgh's First Water Supply: The Comiston Aqueduct, 1675-1721" in the journal Civil Engineer International . The box contains materials from their research and publication process, as well as materials Winant prepared before he defended his dissertation, "The Hydraulics Revolution: Science and Technical Design of Urban Water Supply in the Enlightenment." The box includes correspondence, drafts of his defense, editorial comments, newsletters, and charts. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: drawings, maps, engineering drawings, books, and book excerpts. Subjects include aqueducts; waterworks in Edinburgh, Scotland; the Old Croton Aqueduct in New York City, New York; the Comiston Aqueduct in Edinburgh, Scotland; hydraulic systems; Enlightenment-era urban water supply systems; European engineers; John B. Jervis; and J.T. Desaguliers. The following oversize items were moved to Box 344: two engineering drawings (1992).

Kemp helped organize the Engineering Foundation Conference in partnership with Theodore Sande ("Ted") at Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, New Hampshire on June 25-30, 1978. The conference's theme was "Historic Preservation of Engineering Structures," and the ASCE expressed interest in publishing the conference proceedings later that year. This box includes materials about the conference, including correspondence, draft conference papers, annual reports, budget lists, event programs, curriculum vitae, and lists of contacts. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: conference papers, RSVP slips, questionnaire response sheets, engineering drawings, memorandums, maps, and clippings. Subjects include historic preservation, histories of technology and engineering works, preservation of engineering structures in museums, conference logistics, and reimbursement for travel expenses. Highlights include a mark-up proof of the conference proceedings. The following oversize items were moved to Box 344: one clipping (1982), and one brochure (undated).

The USACE appointed Kemp to document the Gallipolis Locks and Dam for the NRHP. This box contains his research, including facsimile and original photographs, draft and final reports, indexes to photographs and correspondence. Subjects include the Gallipolis Locks and Dam, bridges and the Kanawha River. Highlights include the HAER report about the Gallipolis Locks and Dam operation building. The following items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 1, Folder 5: four facsimile engineering drawings of sections of the Gallipolis Locks and Dam (1881 and undated), a brochure of the Gallipolis Locks and Dam (undated) and one chart (undated).