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Kemp wrote the book, Taming the Muskingum about navigation on the Muskingum River in Ohio. The box contains research materials, including book drafts, email correspondence, prints, photographs, and facsimile photos, maps, tables and illustrations. Subjects include Dr. Kemp, Tappan Dam operating house, and Taming the Muskingum. The following oversize material was moved to Box 342: nine facsimile engineering drawings (1931-1939 and undated).

Kemp wrote a report entitled "New Jersey Statewide Historic Bridge Survey." The box includes his research materials and a draft of the report, including correspondence, handwritten notes, photographs, data lists, budget lists and invoices. The box also includes the following facsimile items: book excerpts, invoices, maps, and engineering drawings. Subjects include the historic bridges of New Jersey, highways and canals of New Jersey and transportation systems in the United States. Highlights include HAER reports about Lowthorp Truss Bridge in Clinton, New Jersey; the Lower Bank Road Bridge in Egg Harbor City, New Jersey; and the Fink Through Truss Bridge in Hamden, New Jersey.

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 collected books and other materials to aid in his research process. This box includes materials on Canadian electricity, a facsimile Wheeling Grape Sugar and Refining Company bill of lading, and an etching of the Forth Road Bridge in Queensferry, Scotland.

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).