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The IHTIA produced the movie, Uncovering the Covered Bridge in partnership with WSWP-TV. The box includes script drafts, cost lists, correspondence, photographs, an audiotape, handwritten notes, lists, clippings, and drawings. Subjects include covered bridges, movie production, the truss design, bridges of Virginia and West Virginia (especially the Philippi Covered Bridge) and the American Civil War's effect on bridges. The following oversize items were moved to Box 342: four sheets of newspaper (1947-1949 and 1993), three facsimile photographs (undated), and seven pamphlets (1988-1991). A videocassette of Uncovering the Covered Bridge may be found in Box 322 and at the West Virginia Archives and History center.

Kemp collected materials in preparation for a survey of the restoration required for covered bridges across West Virginia. The box includes correspondence, photographs, reports and report drafts, brochures, facsimile book excerpts, student papers, engineering drawings, clippings, journal articles, pamphlets, maps, bibliographies. Subjects include covered bridges across the United States, especially in West Virginia. Highlights include NRHP nomination reports for the following covered bridges: Hokes Mill, Indian Creek, Fletcher, Rooting Creek, Simpson Creek/W.T. Law, Sarvis Fork/Sandyville, Dents Run, Laurel Creek, Locust Creek, Fish Creek and Carrollton. The following oversized items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 5, Folder 2: two facsimile photographs (1930 and undated), one map (undated), fourteen sheets of clippings (1981-1993); three sheets of engineering drawings (undated), three sheets of lists of data (1965), one pamphlet (1993), two book jackets (circa 1992).

Kemp conducted a survey of covered bridge conditions across West Virginia in partnership with the Division of Highways and West Virginia University. The box includes research materials for the following covered bridges: Barrackville, Carrollton, Fish Creek, Fletcher, Herns Mill, Hokes Mill, Indian Creek, Laurel Creek, Locust Creek, Sarvis Fork, Simpson and Walkersville. Includes engineering drawings, reports, plans, budget lists, minutes and notes. Subjects include covered bridge restoration and inspection of covered bridges. The following oversize item was moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 5, Folder 5: one pamphlet (undated).

Kemp studied the Old Croton Aqueduct with student Ed Winant as part of Winant's dissertation. The research culminated in the article "John Jervis and the Hydraulic Design of the Old Croton Aqueduct" in the journal Canal History and Technology Proceedings. Kemp also advised on the exhibit "The Old Croton Aqueduct: Rural Resources Meet Urban Needs" at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, Westchester County, New York. He also campaigned for Old Croton to become a National Historic Landmark. This box includes preparation materials, including reports, correspondence, draft reports, student papers, brochures, notes, and engineering drawings. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: engineering drawings, reports, book excerpts, articles, clippings, and serials. Subjects include the Croton Aqueduct in New York City, New York; the Washington Aqueduct serving Washington, D.C.; Roman aqueducts; John B. Jervis; construction of the Erie Canal; waterworks in New York; the training of civil engineers; the process for publishing the paper; concrete and mortar; and siphons. The following oversize items were moved to Box 344: twenty engineering drawings (undated) and one chart (undated).

Kemp studied the Old Croton Aqueduct with student Ed Winant as part of Winant's dissertation. The research culminated in the article "John Jervis and the Hydraulic Design of the Old Croton Aqueduct" in the journal Canal History and Technology Proceedings. Kemp also advised on the exhibit "The Old Croton Aqueduct: Rural Resources Meet Urban Needs" at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, Westchester County, New York. He also campaigned for Old Croton to become a National Historic Landmark. The box includes reports, report drafts, event programs, notes, advertisements, brochures, exhibit proposals, bibliographies, engineering drawings, handwritten reports, and scholarly journal articles. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: photographic prints, book excerpts, drawings, reports, maps, engineering drawings, budget lists, agreements and contracts, articles, lists of people, and clippings. Subjects include the effect of the Croton Aqueduct in New York City, New York; John B. Jervis; the training of United States civil engineers; New York City water and hydraulic systems; the hydraulic grade line; aqueducts in New York; European aqueducts; the Manhattan Valley, the Harlem Valley, and French hydraulic engineers like Antoine de Chézy and Pierre Louis Georges DuBuat. Highlights include the National Historic Site nomination form for the Old Croton Aqueduct.

Kemp consulted on the restoration of locks that were part of the Delaware and Raritan Canal. Includes engineering drawings, reports, correspondence, facsimile book excerpts, etc. Subjects include the Delaware and Raritan Canal; double outlet locks; New Brunswick, New Jersey; historic canal structures; canal restoration; etc. Correspondents include Emory Kemp, A.G. Lichtenstein & Associates, Olivia Costa, Abba Lichtenstein, and James Neilson, Lauralee Rappleye-Marsett, et al. Highlights include environmental analysis reports and archaeological assessments. The following oversize material was moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 4, Folder 7: 55 engineering drawings (1980-1991).

Kemp prepared a historic structures report and consulted on the restoration of the Delaware Aqueduct Bridge ("Roebling's Bridge"), the oldest wire suspension bridge in the United States. He partnered with A.G. Lichtenstein & Associates, Inc. on the multi-million-dollar restoration, and the project received a presidential award from President Ronald Reagan. This box includes materials used in his consultation, including correspondence, notes, engineering drawings, charts and test results, contracts, budgets, reports and report drafts, newsletters, clippings, press releases, photographic prints, brochures, invitations, and travel ephemera. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: engineering drawings, photographic prints, correspondence, charts, book excerpts, clippings, press releases, notes, and travel ephemera. Subjects include the Delaware Aqueduct that stretches from Minisink Ford, Sullivan County, New York to Lackawaxen, Pike County, Pennsylvania; the Delaware and Hudson Canal in New York and Pennsylvania; the cities of Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania and High Falls, Ulster County, New York; the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, New York; the Upper Delaware River; the Zane Grey House in Lackawaxen; John A. Roebling; E.H. Huber of the Lackawaxen Bridge Company; cables of suspension bridges; cement types in the aqueduct; and the NPS's takeover of the bridge. Highlights include the Mohawk-Hudson Area HAER Survey. The following oversize items have been moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 15, Folder 4: fifteen engineering drawings (1983 and undated), one chart (1983), and twenty-one sheets of clippings (1979-1983).

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).