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This series contains the books Kemp donated from his personal library. Subjects include engineering, bridges, canals, railways, the history of science and technology, industrial archaeology, and general history.

This series includes published and unpublished copies of Kemp's academic scholarship. It includes drafts of monographs where Kemp did not also collect significant research material for the preparation of the monograph (for draft copies of the works The Great Kanawha Navigation or Taming the Muskingum, consult the series, "Research Files," sub-series "Research on Waterways").

The series includes materials Kemp collected and produced while serving professional organizations, including WVU. Some of these materials come from conferences that Kemp helped to organize. The series also includes materials Kemp collected when receiving recognition for his achievements. Finally, there are miscellaneous materials from his personal life.

This series includes materials Kemp collected, worked on and produced between ca.1950s-2003. This series includes materials from his trip to Russia and collaboration with Dr. Mikhail Mikeshin, International Foundation for the History of Science; materials from his fellowship at the University of Edinburgh and his trip to the United Kingdom; mixed materials on early suspension bridges; correspondence, journals, manuscript translation in Japanese from his collaboration with Dr. Haruzau Ohashi; materials about King's Covered Bridge; the Wheeling Suspension Bridge; engineering papers on Helical staircases, torsion and concrete knee joints; also includes booklet on Civil War, information on the founding of the Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR], booklets on the Wright brothers and early Aeroplanes. Includes facsimiles of articles from ca.1800s. Also includes a file with family miscellaneous and a photo of Dr. Kemp.

This addendum contains materials Kemp collected, worked on, and produced, which date between 1768-2014. Items of interest include materials on early oil drilling and Kemp's trip to Canada, Fairbank Oil and the Canadian Oil Museum; materials on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, suspension bridges in France, the United Kingdom and the United States; mixed materials from his work on West Virginia covered bridges; paper on "Marc Seguin and the origins of the Modern Long Span Wire Suspension Bridge"; old postcards of United States and French suspension bridges and of West Virginia covered bridges; materials about King's Covered Bridge; the Wheeling Suspension Bridge and Independence Hall; an engineering paper on covered bridge restoration; mixed materials on the restoration of both Philippi and Barrackville Covered Bridges; materials from chapters of Kemp's book Essays on the History of Transportation and Technology; original documents and drawings from Bull Creek Bridge ca. 1855; a Mason-Dixon Line Map facsimile ca. 1768; The General Advertiser (Philadelphia) May 6, 1797. Also includes photos of West Virginia locks and dams, West Virginia covered bridges, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad stations/roundhouses, early West Virginia oil wells, old farm buildings, locks and dams, suspension bridges, etc.

Includes mostly engineering drawings, such as schematics, blueprints, floorplans, and maps for a variety of engineering projects throughout West Virginia and Maryland. These materials are from a variety of architects and engineers, most often Paul D. Marshall and Associates, but all pertain to projects involving Emory L. Kemp or the IHTIA. Also includes a poster titled "the Bridge at St.Louis" and a panoramic photograph of Alderson Bridge in Alderson, WV