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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).

Kemp researched the bridges of Richard B. Osborne, a bridge engineer in Pennsylvania, as part of a paper he gave for the Society for Industrial Archaeology Meeting in 1986 and an article in the journal Industrial Archaeology. Kemp also helped design a bridge replica for the National Museum of American History. The box includes drafts of the essay, clippings, facsimile book excerpts, facsimile and original engineering drawings, student papers, calculations, data lists, facsimile and original photographs, and research notes. Subjects include the Reading-Halls Station Bridge near Muncy, Pennsylvania; the Sunderland Bridge near Deerfield, Massachusetts; the West Manayuk Bridge near Manayuk, Pennsylvania; the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company (later called the Reading Railway); Pottsville, Pennsylvania; the iron truss bridges; other truss bridges; and the process of conducting research on Richard B. Osborne. Highlights include a HAER report on the Reading-Halls Station Bridge near Muncy, Pennsylvania. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 7, Folder 1: 2,013 facsimile pages of diary (1851-1881), 8 engineering drawings (1981-1985 and undated).

The IHTIA and Vandalia Heritage Foundation created a report on revitalizing the B&O Railroad Main Stem in 2004. The box contains their preparation, including facsimile book excerpts, studies, reports, facsimile photos, articles, facsimile diagrams and maps, and facsimile ephemera. Subjects include the B&O railroad, its surrounding industrial archaeology, and archival management best practices. Highlights include a Historic Landmark nomination forms for the B&O Railroad Martinsburg Shops and facsimile train orders. This document case was originally formatted as two binders.

Kemp researched federal infrastructure projects along West Virginia rivers. The box contains facsimile excerpts from the United States Congressional Series Set, primarily reports to Congress from the United States Secretary of War and the United States Army Chief of Engineers. Subjects include the Rivers and Harbors Act, harnessing water power, improving infrastructure along the Ohio River, the locks and dam along the Great Kanawha River, the James River and Kanawha Canal, the New River, the Greenbrier River, the Elk River, the Gauley River, the Monongahela River, and the Little Kanawha River.