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Kemp consulted on the restoration of the Proentry Road Bridge over Jennings Run in Allegany County, Maryland in partnership with the Allegany County Department of Public Works, the Maryland Historical Trust and the Maryland Highway Administration. Items include correspondence, HAER reports, photographs, negatives, budgets and catalog records, handwritten notes and booklets. The box also includes facsimile correspondence, scholarly articles, engineering drawings, maps, and book excerpts. Subjects include the history of the Proentry Road Bridge and Jennings Run, the process for writing HABS/HAER reports, arch truss bridges in Maryland and the history of Allegany County. Highlights include HAER reports on the Proentry Road Bridge and the Waverly Street Bridge. The following oversized items have been moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 11, Folder 2: 1 print-out from the Frostburg State University Library online catalog (1994), two engineering drawings (1994).

Kemp contributed lectures and reports to the historic preservation academic community, and advised West Virginia University on the connection between engineering and the humanities as a professor. He also evaluated historic copper mines in the Quincy and Calumet areas of the Keweenaw Peninsula of Pennsylvania in order to determine whether they would be eligible for national park status. This box includes his work materials, including resumes, biographical narratives, reports, correspondence, conference proceedings, event programs, clippings, newsletters, organization applications, drawings, book reviews, a USB drive, photographic prints, and handwritten notes. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: book excerpts, applications for awards, clippings, scholarly journal articles, book reviews, newsletters and bound copies of the United States Congressional Series Set. Subjects include the Historic Bridge Conference, Kemp's career, engineering feats, historic preservation, industrial archaeology, the history of science and technology, bridges, canals, transportation mechanisms, and academia. Highlights include a bound 1954 calendar from the University of London Imperial College, early photographs of Kemp, and correspondence regarding a two-year professorial appointment to the SEATO Graduate School in Thailand. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 13, Folder 9: one event program (1991); two brochures (1974-1988); two nomination forms for the magazine, "Who's Who in Engineering" (1989 and undated); and six clippings (1986-1992).

This box contains the following books:

This box contains the following books:

Kemp researched bridge patents and compiled the reports of others in preparation for his book American Bridge Patents: The First Century (1790-1890) and other publications. The box includes correspondence, book excerpts, drafts of publications, reports, lists of patents, and clippings. Correspondents include David Simmons and Joy Chau. Highlights include many HAER reports on bridges in Ohio.

Kemp maintained research materials on historic building materials and engineering. The box includes facsimile book excerpts and reports. Highlights include an NRHP nomination form for the McFarland House in Martinsburg, West Virginia.

Kemp and the IHTIA conducted research on industrial structures, mainly in West Virginia. The box contains his research materials, along with publications and reports by Kemp. The box includes contracts, newspapers, transcripts of interviews, reports, correspondence, a student thesis, books, and a calendar. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: photographic prints, clippings, maps, and reports. Subjects include the Seneca Glass Factory in Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia; the Simpson Creek Covered Bridge in Bridgeport, Harrison County, West Virginia, the Barrackville Covered Bridge in Barrackville, Marion County, West Virginia, the Vinton Iron Furnace in Madison Township, Vinton County, Ohio; the C&O Canal, the Mannington Round Barn in Mannington, Marion County, West Virginia; the Monongahela River, West Virginia County Courthouses, mills, canals, rail trails, spillways, petroleum, and bridges.