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Kemp served as a consultant on the restoration of the Wheeling Custom House, an Italianate building known for its innovative rolled wrought iron beams, floor arches and cast iron columns. The Wheeling Custom House (also known as West Virginia Independence Hall) was the site of the state's constitutional conventions in 1863. Box includes a pamphlet, correspondence, drawings, engineering drawings, notes, structural analysis, reports, project expenditures, facsimile articles and correspondence, facsimile appropriations and reports, etc. Subjects include the Reading Hall Station Bridge, the restoration of the Wheeling Custom House, fireproof factories, structural iron, etc. Correspondents include Wayne Elban, Tracy Stephens, et al. The following item was moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 4, Folder 1: three drawings (circa 1850 and undated), one clipping (1981), and three engineering drawings (1980 and undated).

Kemp wrote the book The Wheeling Suspension Bridge: A Pictorial Heritage with Beverly Fluty. This box includes materials Kemp collected in preparation for the book, including photographic prints, photographic negatives, a draft of the book, lists, drawings, reports, postcards, and floppy disks. Subjects include the Lehigh Gap Bridge in Palmerton, Pennsylvania; Wheeling Suspension Bridge in Wheeling, West Virginia; Charles Ellet Jr.; the bridge's conditions; and the bridge's use. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 10, Folder 3: one engineering drawing (undated) and one map (undated).

Kemp consulted on the restoration of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge and co-wrote multiple books on the Wheeling Suspension Bridge, including The Wheeling Suspension Bridge: A Pictorial Heritage (with Beverly Fluty). This box includes his research materials, including correspondence, handwritten notes, programs and invitations, scholarly articles, reports, magazine clippings, photographic prints, contact sheets and postcards. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: charters and reports before the West Virginia state legislature, correspondence, scholarly articles, photographic prints, contact sheets, drawings and engineering drawings. Subjects include the Wheeling Suspension Bridge in Wheeling, West Virginia; suspension bridges of France and the United States; other bridges in Wheeling, West Virginia; Charles Ellet Jr.; the Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company; and the Ohio River. The following oversize items were moved to Box 344: two maps (undated), and ten sheets of engineering drawings (undated). This box was originally titled "Illustrated History of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge," so may have been used to inform Kemp's work on The Wheeling Suspension Bridge: A Pictorial Heritage.

The Watcher Quick Step When Voices Breathe a Music Sweet Wrecker's Daughter Oh Susanna! Joys that were Crowning Love Not Verdi's Quick Step Sachems Daughter -- cover art Rosa Lee The Birde of Sighs The Farmer's Boy Sister, Swift the Hours Have Fled In the Lonely Grove I Linger Rose of Allandale French Republic March

Re: papers regarding property. (See also folder marked: Whittle, Conway--papers regarding house on Boush Street.) Includes will (revoked) of Grace L. Whittle Sams.