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Kemp wrote the book, Taming the Muskingum about navigation on the Muskingum River in Ohio. This box contains his research, including a floppy disk, book copy edits, handwritten notes, and facsimile illustrations for the book. Also includes a typescript on the Big Sandy Navigation, a facsimile report of the 1875 survey of the Big Sandy River, a Chief of Engineers report, and biographical reports on Stephen Long, Ben Franklin Thomas, and William Emery Merrill. Highlights include an unbound copy of the pages for Taming the Muskingum.

Kemp wrote the book, Taming the Muskingum about navigation on the Muskingum River in Ohio. The box contains research materials. Formats includes USACE reports, plans, specifications, articles, clippings, etc. Subjects include, the Muskingum Watershed, Dover Dam, the Beach City Dam, Muskingum flood control, Ohio canals, and soil analysis by the U.S. Engineering Soil Lab.

Kemp wrote the book, Taming the Muskingum about navigation on the Muskingum River in Ohio. The box includes his research materials, including correspondence, booklets, reports, studies, facsimile articles, facsimile reports, and facsimile correspondence. Subjects include the Muskingum River and the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District, the Ohio River, locks and dams, building along the waterway and insurance claims. The following oversize materials were moved to Box 342: one reservoir data sheet (January 1944), and one map (1970).

Kemp wrote the book, Taming the Muskingum about navigation on the Muskingum River in Ohio. The box contains his research, including photo negatives and photo prints of locks, dams, the Mohawk, Pleasant Hill, Tappan, Leesville, Atwood, Charles Mill and Mohicanville reservoirs, flood sites, lockkeeper's houses, boats, etc. The following oversize material was moved to Box 342: one sheet of Muskingum River Traffic Data sheet (undated).

Kemp wrote the book, Taming the Muskingum about navigation on the Muskingum River in Ohio. The box contains research materials, including drafts for the text Taming the Muskingum, a list of "current publication commitments for Dr. Emory Kemp," and facsimile photos of dams along the Muskingum. The following oversize material was moved to Box 342: one facsimile data sheet (undated).

Kemp's consulting business, Past and Present, was contracted by the NRCS (formerly the SCS) to prepare HABS/HAER-like records of historic structures that would potentially be impacted by the construction of a multipurpose dam on the North Fork Hughes River in Ritchie County, West Virginia. This box includes research materials he used in preparing the records, including photographic prints, handwritten notes, correspondence, and reports. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: book excerpts, articles, reports, clippings, maps, and bibliographies. Subjects include natural gas; carbon black; oil; mineral resources; the Hughes River; Pleasants County, West Virginia; Wood County, West Virginia; Ritchie County, West Virginia; the railroad in Ritchie County and general West Virginia geography and soil composition. The following oversize items were moved to Box 344: five maps (1918 and 1994).

Kemp's consulting business, Past and Present, was contracted by the NRCS (formerly the SCS) to prepare HABS/HAER-like records of historic structures that would potentially be impacted by the construction of a multipurpose dam on the North Fork Hughes River in Ritchie County, West Virginia. This box includes research on how to prepare a HABS/HAER record, including originals and facsimiles of the following: reports, instruction manuals, and catalog records. Subjects include documenting historic structures in United States industrial history, procedures for nominating buildings to the NRHP, and procedures for surveying structures for HABS/HAER.

Kemp's consulting business, Past and Present, was contracted by the NRCS (formerly the SCS) to prepare HABS/HAER-like records of historic structures that would potentially be impacted by the construction of a multipurpose dam on the North Fork Hughes River in Ritchie County, West Virginia. The box includes correspondence, contracts, report drafts, handwritten and typed research notes, engineering drawings and maps. Subjects include the North Fork Hughes River Dam; Ritchie County, West Virginia; historic mills and homesteads; preserving historic structures, especially those in ruin; preparing HABS/HAER nominations. Highlights include three volumes of the report, "Phase II Cultural Resources Investigation on the North Fork Hughes River, Ritchie County, West Virginia." The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 13, Folder 1: nine maps (undated).

Kemp's consulting business, Past and Present, was contracted by the NRCS (formerly the SCS) to prepare HABS/HAER-like records of historic structures that would potentially be impacted by the construction of a multipurpose dam on the North Fork Hughes River in Ritchie County, West Virginia. The box includes materials about the historic structures, including reports, report drafts, engineering drawings, handwritten notes, photographic prints, photographic negatives, photographic contact sheets, and floppy disks. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: engineering drawings, reports, photographic prints, articles, instruction manuals, budget lists and contracts. Subjects include structures in Harrisville, West Virginia, including Woods Homestead, the Moore Homestead, the Tate Homestead and Oil Rigger, the Imperial Carbon Black Plant and the Back Run Plant. Subjects also include railways in Ritchie County, state highway bridges, coal and natural gas, and the North Fork of the Hughes River.

Kemp wrote a report entitled "New Jersey Statewide Historic Bridge Survey." The box includes his research materials and a draft of the report, including correspondence, handwritten notes, photographs, data lists, budget lists and invoices. The box also includes the following facsimile items: book excerpts, invoices, maps, and engineering drawings. Subjects include the historic bridges of New Jersey, highways and canals of New Jersey and transportation systems in the United States. Highlights include HAER reports about Lowthorp Truss Bridge in Clinton, New Jersey; the Lower Bank Road Bridge in Egg Harbor City, New Jersey; and the Fink Through Truss Bridge in Hamden, New Jersey.