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Kemp participated in the restoration of the Blaker's Mill that is part of Jackson's Mill, along with Paul D. Marshall & Associates, Inc. and Dennett, Muessig & Associates Ltd. As part of his appointment to the HAER Advisory Committee, Kemp also collected photographs of historic bridges and other structures from West Virginia, especially those related to R.P. Davis. Davis was a dean of West Virginia University's College of Engineering and the designer of historic bridges in West Virginia. The box includes reports, correspondence, photographic prints, budget lists and facsimile maps. Subjects include Blaker's Mill, hydroelectric power, and the New Martinsville Bridge.

Kemp consulted on the restoration of the Harvey and Inner Harbor Navigation Canal locks. This box includes his research, including photographic prints, reports, correspondence and facsimiles patents. Subjects include the Harvey Lock and Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Lock in New Orleans, the USACE' reports on Harvey Lock and other waterways in Louisiana, Goodwin and Associates and Edward Schildhauer. Highlights include the Harvey Lock and Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Lock NRHP nomination, evaluations by the USACE, and photographs of Harvey Lock. The following items were moved to Box 342: fourteen pages of facsimile engineering drawings of the Louisiana-Texas Intracoastal Waterway (1932). This box was formerly called "Industrial Archaeology Books Box 1 of 2."

Kemp consulted on the restoration of the Harvey and Inner Harbor Navigation Canal locks. This box includes his research, including report drafts, books and facsimile photos. Subjects include the Harvey Lock, the Gulf Coast intracoastal waterways, the Lower Mississippi waterways and waterways in New Orleans specifically. This box was formerly called "Industrial Archaeology Books Box 2 of 2."

Kemp studied helical stairs, water towers and concrete, and he published papers on concrete structures and curved beams on elastic supports. This box includes journal articles, dissertations, and Kemp's essays. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: interview transcripts, lists of mills, journal articles, and essays. Subjects include the mathematics underlying helical stairs, water towers, and concrete; and life in Webster and Calhoun Counties, West Virginia in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. The following oversize items were moved to Box 344: 20 sheets of computer print-out calculations and graphs (1977).

Kemp presented at conferences on bridge engineering, especially the annual Historic Bridge Conference. This box includes a draft of one conference paper and versions of his conference papers published in conference proceedings. The box also includes facsimiles of his conference papers. Subjects include restoring historic bridges, covered bridges, and the Wheeling Suspension Bridge.

The box demonstrates IHTIA's documentation and restoration process for bridges. It includes reports, photographs, correspondence, clippings, press releases and maps. Subjects include advocating for bridge restoration, the restoration process, truss bridges, and historic bridges in Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia and New Jersey. Highlights include HAER surveys of reinforced concrete arch bridges in Iowa and historic bridges in Pennsylvania and a book about the Dominion Bridge Company from 1945. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 11, Folder 5: 4 sheets of engineering drawings (1992), 14 sheets of clippings (1995-1998).

Kemp served on the ASCE's Committee on the History and Heritage of American Civil Engineering. This box contains documents pertaining to the history of the structures nominated as National Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks and Local Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks. It includes finding aids, correspondence, brochures, press releases, oral history transcripts, and clippings. It also includes facsimiles of the following: scholarly articles, correspondence, maps, photographic prints, budgets, scripts, book excerpts, nomination forms, brochures, clippings, correspondence, and engineering drawings. Subjects include civil engineering feats in the United States, especially monuments, tunnels, airports, railway systems, bridges, shipyards, dams and other control systems for bodies of water. Structures in the following states are covered: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wyoming. Highlights include NRHP forms for several of the structures, as well as sample nomination forms for the ASCE National Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks or Local Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks. Each folder within the box contains materials on a different nominated structure, and the folders are arranged in alphabetical order by the name of the structure. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 12, Folder 9: two maps (1976), six sheets of clippings (1975 and undated), and one booklet (1977).

Kemp maintained research materials on how to preserve historic structures using a variety of materials. The box includes reports, a floppy disk, brochures, proposals, correspondence, newsletters, manuals, clippings, and engineering drawings. The box also includes facsimile photographs, book excerpts, and clippings. Subjects include historic bridges, arch bridges, timber, concrete, cut nails, construction, and cement and plastics used in restoration materials. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 12, Folder 3: seven sheets of brochures (1994-1997 and undated), and one clipping (1996).

Kemp maintained a set of facsimile files on historic suspension bridges to conduct further research. The box of files contains only facsimiles of the following: correspondence, book excerpts, clippings, reports, diaries, patents, drawings and engineering drawings. Subjects include suspension bridges of France (particularly La Roche-Bernard Bridge), suspension bridges of Switzerland (particularly the Fribourg Bridge and bridges in Geneva), the Brooklyn Bridge, the Cincinnati Bridge, the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, Pittsburgh's aqueducts and bridges, the Delaware Aqueduct, John Roebling and Charles Ellet Jr. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 9, Folder 1: 5 sheets of maps (1994), 5 sheets of engineering drawings (1831 and undated), 9 sheets of clippings (1862-1867 and 1985), 26 sheets of drawings (1854-1859), 85 sheets of book excerpts (1832-1846 and 1993).

Kemp maintained a set of facsimile files on historic suspension bridges to conduct further research. This box includes postcards, reports, essays, books, slides, photographs, correspondence, journal articles, brochures, and research notes. It also includes facsimiles of the following: book excerpts, correspondence, maps, bound copies of the United States Congressional Series Set and court records, patents, journal articles, logs, clippings, ephemera and reports. Subjects include James Finley, Timothy Palmer, John Templeman, and civil engineering in the United States. Subjects especially focus on Pennsylvania and West Virginia suspension bridges, especially the bridges over the Lehigh River, the Juniata Crossing Bridge over the Juniata River, the Spider Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill over the Schuylkill River, and the Chain Bridge over the Potomac River. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 9, Folder 2: 1 sheet of brochures (undated), 4 sheets of engineering drawings (1904 and undated), 7 sheets of logs (undated), 4 sheets of New Jersey state government records (1795-1804), 1 poster (1980), 3 sheets of journal articles (1937), 1 sheet of book excerpt (undated), 42 sheets of clippings (1811, 1904-1911, 1975-1980).