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Dr. Barb Howe conducted twelve audio oral history interviews arranged into eight parts with Kemp from October 10, 2017 to May 24, 2018. Howe also collected one short video clip about Kemp's work on the Sydney Opera House. The files include Howe's notes and background reference documents from four of the eight parts of the interview, which she prepared to prioritize what information Kemp should relate in his oral history. Highlights include a digital copy of Kemp's curriculum vitae for reference, and a spreadsheet that highlights key moments from Kemp's career.

Kemp donated materials as background research for the West Virginia and Regional History Center exhibit, "The Structure of History: Celebrating Industrial Heritage and Preservation in the Emory L. Kemp Collection." He also donated materials he felt could be displayed in the exhibit. The box includes brochures, books, magazine clippings, a facsimile magazine clipping, and a photographic print in a frame. Subjects include bridges of West Virginia and Pennsylvania and Dr. Emory Kemp. Highlights include a piece of the original wire from the Wheeling Suspension Bridge in Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, and a brochure about the IHTIA. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 15, Folder 5: forty-six engineering drawings (1992-1997), four drawings (1990 and undated), and one poster (1849).

This box contains materials about Kemp, including his obituary and funeral program. It includes published works in magazines and clippings. The following items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 1, Folder 2: Nine clippings about Kemp restoring bridges (1991-2002), one Arup blueprint of High Court Blantyre - Nyasaland (undated).

Mercy Klein of Preservation Alliance of West Virginia interviewed Kemp for a video oral history on August 24, 2017 at Kemp's home in Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia.

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).

Kemp conducted research on land and water transportation systems and published on the subject, including the book Transportation and Technology, which included essays on the history of technology and transportation. The box includes a dissertation, reports, photographic prints, research notes, a calendar, correspondence, handwritten notes, clippings, and resumes. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: maps, advertisements, charts, reports, photographic prints, book excerpts, correspondence, clippings, maps and engineering drawings. Subjects include turnpikes, structures of West Virginia, waterways, Kemp's book Taming the Muskingum, the Little Kanawha River, and bridges. Highlights include a HAER nomination form for the West Oil Company Endless-Wire Oil Pumping Rig and correspondence about Kemp's work with Fairbanks Oil Company. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 14, Folder 3: one clipping (2013), two brochures (1976), one map (1883).