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While working for Ove Arup, Kemp researched I.K. Brunel and the construction of the Renkioi Hospital during the Crimean War in Turkey. Brunel also surveyed the Great Western Railway, where he suggested using cable technology to navigate steep passages that the rail cars might not be able to mount unassisted. The cable-based incline technology was fundamental in designing two Pittsburgh inclines. While serving on the ASCE's Committee for the History and Heritage of American Civil Engineering, Kemp deliberated about granting National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark status to the inclines. The box includes materials from both parts of Kemp's career, including handwritten notes, typewritten notes, articles, correspondence, Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks nomination forms, brochures, clippings, records from the state legislature, reports, scholarly journal articles and photographic prints. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: correspondence, scholarly journal articles, clippings, press releases, book excerpts, budget lists, and engineering drawings. Subjects include I.K. Brunel, Renkioi Hospital, canal tunnels, British canals (especially the Huddersfield Narrow Canal), and the Monongahela and Duquesne Inclines in Pittsburgh. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 15, Folder 3: 55 sheets of facsimile report (undated), 1 map (undated), 1 clipping (1983), and 1 engineering drawing (1857).

Kemp researched hydraulic cement and the history of the cement business in preparation for several publications. The box includes a facsimile article, a draft of a presentation script, handwritten notes, slides, lists of slide captions, photographic prints, negatives, and bibliography cards. Subjects include hydraulic cement; the history of the cement business; civil engineering; lime; the Shepherdstown Cement Plant in Shepherdstown, WV; and lime kilns and natural cement mills of Maryland (especially at Pinto, Maryland and Antietam, Maryland). The following oversize items were moved to Box 343: one page of a facsimile book excerpt (undated).

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Kemp researched industrial archaeology. This box contains research materials, such as books. Subjects are the Hopewell Furnace, the St. Paul District of the USACE, and the Waterway Experiment Station.

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Kemp led an NPS project to study and stabilize the Kaymoor Coal Mine Complex (also sometimes called "Kay Moor Mine"), which is now part of the New River Gorge National River in Fayette County, West Virginia. He collaborated with Paul D. Marshall & Associates, Inc. on the project. The box includes a book, correspondence, newsletters, brochures, budgets, reports, photographic prints, engineering drawings, and contracts. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: articles, correspondence, budget lists, contracts, resumes, clippings, reports, drafts of reports, technical manuals, student papers, and engineering drawings. Subjects include the section of the New River Gorge National River in Fayette County, West Virginia; the Kaymoor Coal Mine Complex in Fayette County, West Virginia; Kaymoor Mine Number One; mine reclamation and stabilization; powder houses; coke houses; preserving industrial sites; and reimbursement of government employees. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 13, Folder 4: four sheets of budgets (1986-1988), two clippings (1986), and one brochure (undated).

Kemp conducted research on engineers who designed famous suspension bridges in preparation for several publications, including the lecture and article, "James Finley and the Origins of the Modern Suspension Bridge." He also advised Don Sayenga's research and managed applications to the West Virginia Academy of Civil Engineers. The box includes typed and handwritten notes, applications, correspondence and transcripts of handwritten correspondence. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: news clippings, correspondence, and book excerpts. Subjects include James Finley; Charles Ellet Jr.; John A. Roebling; John Templeton; the Wheeling Suspension Bridge in Wheeling, West Virginia; the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge in Niagara Falls, New York; Jacob's Creek Bridge in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania; Canadian engineers; bridges of Pennsylvania and Western Maryland; and policies across the civil engineering academic community.

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 articles, reports, photos, drawings, correspondence, a student thesis, etc. Subjects include movable dams, locks and dams of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, Addison M. Scott, the Kanawha River, Kanawha regional history, Captain F.W. Altstaetter, etc. Highlights include data about coal and coke shipments and NRHP nomination forms for the London Locks and Dam and Gallipolis Locks and Dam. The following items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 1, Folder 6: twelve engineering drawings (1909, 1932, undated), and two facsimile photographic prints (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 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).