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The box contains Kemp's research on suspension bridges. It includes original photographs, handwritten notes, and drawings. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: book excerpts, articles, and engineering drawings. Subjects include suspension bridges in the United States (especially Pennsylvania), Europe (especially Germany), restoring bridges, and James Dredge. The folders, "Dredge, J-1843 His patent iron bridges, "Dredge in Ulster: Suspension Bridges [N. Irelan]," and "Carrick-A-Rede Bridge" were empty and removed. The following oversize items were moved to Box 342: three engineering drawings (undated).

Kemp consulted on a proposal to preserve the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal in preparation for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources' plan to rear shad in the defunct canal. Includes originals of the following: photographs, correspondence, engineering drawings, maps, handwritten notes, reports, project proposals and speeches. Also includes facsimile photographs and engineering drawings. Subjects include the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal, archaeological excavations, shad ponds, the Havre de Grace shad and canal project, etc. Organizations include the Susquehanna Museum. Highlights include photographs of the restoration of gates at the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal. The following oversize material was moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 4, Folder 6: One map (1987).

Kemp served as a senior technical advisor for the USACE's official history of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway ("Tenn-Tom"), which stretches across Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama. He conducted oral histories with engineering staff members of the Army Corps of Engineers' Mobile and Nashville Districts, wrote sections of the report, and advised Principal Investigator Jeffrey Stine on technical terms for the report. Kemp later published an essay on the construction of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, one of the last big public waterway initiatives of the twentieth century. This box contains materials from his research, including notes, book excerpts, photographic prints, maps, compact discs of photographs, reports, manuals, and newsletters. The box also includes facsimile reports and a facsimile award nomination. Subjects include the engineering techniques of the Army Corps of Engineers, the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, Bay Springs Lock and Dam, locks and dams in general, the Divide Cut of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, shallow-draft waterways, and the process of reinforcing waterways. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 15, Folder 1: nine brochures (1960-1980), and one map (undated).

Kemp served as a senior technical advisor for the USACE's official history of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway ("Tenn-Tom"), which stretches across Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama. He conducted oral histories with engineering staff members of the USACE' Mobile and Nashville Districts, wrote sections of the report, and advised Principal Investigator Jeffrey Stine on technical terms for the report. Kemp later published an essay on the construction of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, one of the last big public waterway initiatives of the twentieth century. The box includes report drafts, correspondence, catalog records, handwritten notes, deeds of gifts for oral histories, research proposals, outlines of the report, and brochures. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: maps and book excerpts. Subjects include the ACE Mobile District, the ACE Nashville District, the decision to build the Tenn-Tom, and Bay Springs Lock and Dam. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 14, Folder 10: one map (1983), fourteen sheets of facsimile book excerpts (1986), one chart (1986), and two facsimile engineering drawings (undated). Transcripts of several oral histories appear in Box 340.

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 correspondence between Kemp, Robert Maslowski of the Huntington District Corps of Engineers and publishers about movable dams, The Great Kanawha Navigation, and Ohio River Locks and Dams. Also includes a sponsored program application to WVU, a cultural resource analysis, an NRHP evaluation of the Kanawha River navigation system, maps, schematics, and pamphlets. Includes facsimile reference material for Kemp's book, The Great Kanawha Navigation including correspondence with Major Layman, the Chief of Engineers, E.D. Ardesty, et. Al. Also includes the preliminary examination, investigation, survey, and economic study of the Kanawha by the War Department: Chief of Engineers; clippings from the Charleston Daily Mail; right of way deed; and bound copies of the United States Congressional Series Set.

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 Army Corps of Engineers reports on the Gallipolis and the Marmet Locks and Dams, the Ohio River Navigation System, and Water Resource Development in West Virginia. It also includes photos of the Gallipolis and the Marmet Locks and Dams and facsimile references on specifications of locks and dams along the Kanawha. References were used in the writing of The Great Kanawha Navigation.

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 correspondence, newspapers, book, bid proposals, and cost sheets that served as reference material for The Great Kanawha Navigation. Correspondence includes that with Major Conklin, Captain Hunt, the Chief of Engineers, Major Herman, and others. Some subjects include geology and hydrology of Teays Mahomet Valley, C.C.C. regulations, West Virginia public roads, and the National Reemployment Administration. References were used in the writing of The Great Kanawha Navigation. The following oversize materials were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 1, Folder 7: Seven sheets of facsimile clippings (1934-1939).

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 Army Corps of Engineers reports, studies, and design memos. Subjects include Winfield and Marmet Locks and Dams, Marmet and London Pools, and the Kanawha River. These materials were used in the writing of The Great Kanawha Navigation. The following items have been moved Box 342: eleven sheets of facsimile Winfield Lock and Dam Replacement engineering drawings.

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 drawings, illustrations, reports, license applications, correspondence, photos, negatives, a manuscript, a floppy disk, clippings, and captions list and revision notes for the text The Great Kanawha Navigation. Subjects include William P. Craighill, Chief of Engineers, French movable dams on the Kanawha River, the Kanawha River in general, Gallipolis Locks and Dam, the Winfield hydroelectric power plant, etc. Highlights include NRHP nomination form for Gallipolis Locks and Dam. The following items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 1, Folder 8: two facsimile drawings (undated), one Racine Locks and Dam pamphlet (undated), eleven sheets of the Virginia Magazine (1881), and one engineering drawing (1938).