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Kemp wrote the article "The Little Kanawha Navigation" for the journal Canal History and Technology Proceedings. This box contains reseasrch materials, including facsimile reports, correspondence, articles, book excerpts, magazines, clippings, bibliographies, photos, handwritten notes, oral history transcriptions, cost sheets, etc. Subjects include the Little Kanawha Navigation, river traffic, boats, shipping, Gilmer County history, Burning Springs, Burnsville Dam, inland waterways, locks, covered bridges, the West Virginia General Assembly, etc. Highlights include 1907 freight ticket and steam vessel inspection application, a 1908 correspondence regarding the steamboat inspection service, and Larry Sypolt's list of Little Kanawha boats. The following items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 2, Folder 2-3: thirty-seven facsimile clippings (1860-1930, 1987), nine pages of facsimile steamboat shipping bills (1874-1899, two facsimiles of Hardesty's Encyclopedia entries for Kanawha, Calhoun, and Wirt Counties (1889), four facsimile maps (1937, 2003, undated), facsimile data sheets and inspection certificates (1876), and one brochure (1975).

Kemp wrote the article "The Little Kanawha Navigation" for the journal Canal History and Technology Proceedings. This box contains research materials, including mostly facsimile clippings, reports, handwritten correspondence, allotments, operational expenses, river traffic data, pamphlets, itineraries, magazines, grant applications, research notes, photographs, government documents etc. Subjects include USACE, Work Project Administration, Colonel Thomas Tavenner, Johnson Newlon Camden, Sam Hays, Little Kanawha Navigation, locks, the history of the Huntington District, Burnsville folk studies, Wirt County, steamboats, oil springs, the Flood Control Act of 1936. Highlights include West Virginia Division of Highways reports on Creston and Little Kanawha River locks, shipping tickets, toll notes, and bound copies of the United States Congressional Series Set, dated between 1839 and 1880. The following items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 2, Folder 4: approximately fifty sheets of facsimile newspapers (1865-1984), two facsimile maps (undated), and The River-The West Virginia Hillbilly Publication (1976).

Kemp wrote the article "The Little Kanawha Navigation" for the journal Canal History and Technology Proceedings. This box contains his research materials, including photos, drawings, and illustrations from the Cam DePue Collection. Includes slides, negatives, facsimile shipping cost sheets, a book, facsimile maps, correspondence, and bound copies of the United States Congressional Series Set. Subjects include boats and locks on the Little Kanawha River, the United States Geological Survey, water supply of the Ohio River Basin, and reservoirs. Highlights include early twentieth century postcards of the Little Kanawha River, pamphlets on poplar lumber inspection, early twentieth century payroll checks and invoices from work on railroads. The following oversize items were moved to Box 342: three maps (1930), six engineering drawings (1930).

Kemp wrote the article "The Little Kanawha Navigation" for the journal Canal History and Technology Proceedings. This box contains his research materials, including facsimile and original photo prints, negatives, a VHS, facsimile maps, correspondence, and a postcard. Subjects include the S&D Reflector magazine, Wood County, and Little Kanawha River railroad.

Kemp wrote the article "The Little Kanawha Navigation" for the journal Canal History and Technology Proceedings. This box includes facsimile reports, Senate Resolutions, correspondence, data sheets, cost estimates, photos, and a handwritten note. Subjects include the Little Kanawha, the geology of the west fork of the Little Kanawha, power development, reservoirs, flood protection, oil, coal, salt, iron, etc.

Kemp researched the Strauss lift bridge (known as 18th Street Lift Bridge) on the Louisville and Portland Canal in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky in 1992. The box includes the original bibliographies and facsimile documents such as bound copies of the United States Congressional Series Set, scrapbooks, book excerpts, articles, maps, engineering drawings, etc. Subjects include Louisville, the Louisville and Portland Canal, the Ohio River, the Ohio River Valley, the Louisville Cement Company and construction on the Louisville and Portland Canal. Highlights include facsimile reports from the USACE. The following oversize materials were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 4, Drawer 5: Two sheets of engineering drawings (1856), ten maps (1839-1886 and undated).

Kemp's student Thomas Hahn published on the C&O Canal. Includes books and bound copies of the United States Congressional Series Set. Subjects include people involved in the C&O Canal, commerce on waterways, Monongahela River improvements, the Louisville and Portland Canal, the B&O Railroad, etc.

Kemp consulted on the restoration of the Louisville Water Tower in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. He advised on restoration techniques for Phillips & Oppermann, PA, a North Carolina architectural firm. The box includes notes, photographic prints, photographic slides, calculations, correspondence, reports, resumes, construction specifications, engineering drawing, budget lists, and manuals. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: book excerpts, photographic prints, clippings, reports, manuals, and correspondence. Subjects include water towers, pumping stations, surge tanks, steel repair, sheet metal, cleaning and repainting metal, torus geometric structures and gusset reinforcements in the Louisville Water Tower, and the Louisville Water Company. The following oversize items have been moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 14, Folder 9: eighteen engineering drawings (1991 and undated) and one map (undated).

Kemp was the preservation engineer leading the New Jersey Department of Transportation's mitigation study on the Lower Bank Road Bridge in Egg Harbor City, New Jersey. He did the study while working for A.G. Lichtenstein & Associates. Includes engineering drawings, photographs, handwritten notes, correspondence, minutes, book excerpts and data sheets. Subjects include the Lower Bank Road Bridge; Atlantic County, New Jersey; documenting structures for HAER; Strauss bascule bridges; etc. Highlights include the HAER report for the Lower Bank Road Bridge. The following oversize materials were moved to Box 342: two sheets of engineering drawings (1993), four data sheets (1961), 38 sheets of council minutes (1991-1925), three clippings (1964).

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