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Kemp collected materials on British industrial archaeology. The box includes pamphlets, booklets and photograph compilation publications. Subjects include mills, railways, mining, hydropower and steam power, industrial archaeology, Lancashire, Devon etc. Highlights include many booklets from Shire Publications on historic English trades, like nail-making and ironworking, many pamphlets from the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust about historic sites of English industry, and a book on industrial heritage in Quebec. The following items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 2, Folder 5: Two street maps of Manchester (1974 and undated).

Kemp conducted research on canals. The box includes pamphlets, a postcard, a ticket, lecture notices, and bound copies of the United States Congressional Series Set. Subjects include canals, boats, dams, rivers, lock tender houses, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Canada and West Virginia. The following oversize items have been moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 4, Folder 3: Fifty-four pamphlets (1971-1999 and undated), one map (undated), three newspapers (1975-1982).

Kemp conducted research on canals. The box includes facsimile maps, magazines, pamphlets, and a letter to Kemp from the American Canal Society and additional correspondence. It includes an Outlet Locks Restoration Study and Site Analysis and Mitigation Plan for the Delaware & Raritan (D&R) Canal. The box also includes USACE Cultural Resource Survey on Lockhaven and Lockport, the International Canal Monuments List, clippings, book on Thames & Severn Canal, etc. The following items have been moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 4, Folder 3: eight engineering drawings (1980-1990, undated) and one clipping (1979).

This box contains the following books:

This box contains the following books:

Contains materials related to Kemp's book Canal Terminology of the United States (co-written with Kemp's student and colleague, Thomas F. Hahn): correspondence, book draft, contracts, photographs and facsimile book excerpts. Subjects include boats, canals and the book. The following oversize materials were moved to Box 343: Two photographs (undated).

Kemp researched the engineer, C.A.P. Turner, and his concrete slab floor known as the "Mushroom slab." His work culminated in the entry "A Biography of C.A.P. Turner" for the MacMillan Encyclopedia of Architects in 1982. The box includes his preparation for the entry, including correspondence, entry drafts, notes, reports, magazines, journal articles and books. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: book excerpts, catalog records, booklets, reports, and clippings. Subjects include C.A.P. Turner, the Minneapolis Warehouse Historic District in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; the Northwestern Knitting Company Factory building in in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; concrete flat slabs, and reinforced concrete. Highlights include HAER documentation for Minneapolis Warehouse Historic District; the Northwestern Knitting Company Factory building; and Liberty Memorial Bridge crossing over the Missouri River from Bismarck, Burleigh County, North Dakota to Mandan, Morton County, North Dakota.

Kemp maintained research materials about cement and concrete. This box includes reports, clippings, correspondence, and photographic prints. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: book excerpts, clippings, meeting bulletins, handwritten notes, and reports. Subjects include the civil engineer Canvass White, hydraulic cement, lime, mortar, concrete, Portland cement, and the cement industries in New York, Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania (especially Lehigh County). The following oversized item was moved to Box 343: one chart (undated).

Kemp maintained research materials about cement and concrete. This box includes research notecards and his bibliography History of Concrete, 30 B.C. to 1926 A.D.: Annotated. The box also includes facsimile book excerpts and facsimile reports. Subjects include concrete, natural cement, limestone, lime, hydraulic cement, and mortar. Highlights include Thomas Hahn's dissertation, "The Industrial Archeology of the Shepherdstown, West Virginia Site as a Case Study of the Natural Cement Industry of the Upper Potomac Valley."

This box includes Kemp's research on Charles Ellet Jr. and the Wheeling Suspension Bridge in preparation for a variety of publications and before he documented the structure of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge. Box includes facsimiles of the following: correspondence, book excerpts, bound copies of the United States Congressional Series Set, engineering drawings and clippings. The box also includes transcribed correspondence and clippings, original photographs, original correspondence and handwritten notes. Subjects include Charles Ellet Jr., the Wheeling Suspension Bridge, suspension bridges in South America, cables in a suspension bridge, and the process for convincing Congress to fund a bridge project. Correspondents include Ellet, wife Elvira or "Ellie," Henry Moore, and Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company.