Collections : [West Virginia and Regional History Center]

Kemp maintained research materials about cement and concrete. This box includes reports, clippings, correspondence, and photographic prints. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: book excerpts, clippings, meeting bulletins, handwritten notes, and reports. Subjects include the civil engineer Canvass White, hydraulic cement, lime, mortar, concrete, Portland cement, and the cement industries in New York, Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania (especially Lehigh County). The following oversized item was moved to Box 343: one chart (undated).

Kemp maintained research materials about cement and concrete. This box includes research notecards and his bibliography History of Concrete, 30 B.C. to 1926 A.D.: Annotated. The box also includes facsimile book excerpts and facsimile reports. Subjects include concrete, natural cement, limestone, lime, hydraulic cement, and mortar. Highlights include Thomas Hahn's dissertation, "The Industrial Archeology of the Shepherdstown, West Virginia Site as a Case Study of the Natural Cement Industry of the Upper Potomac Valley."