West Virginia University
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Emory L. Kemp Papers regarding Industrial History
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4230
Scope and Contents
This collection includes materials from Dr. Emory L. Kemp’s career of researching, documenting, and preserving historic structures. Kemp was a practicing civil engineer from 1952-1959, then taught civil engineering, historic preservation, and the history of technology from 1962-2003 at West Virginia University. He served as an expert consultant for the preservation of many historic engineering structures, including bridges, waterways, and mills. He also published regularly and remained...
Dates:
1735-2021
John Rogers Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3156
Overview
The collection consists largely of correspondence to Morgantown businessman John Rogers from relatives in Pennsylvania and Maryland. It also includes two letters from Sgt. William A. Widney, who was assigned to the U.S. War Department during the Civil War, to a Morgantown friend (possibly William Hennen). One letter was written by an unidentified woman to her grandson, a West Virginia University student.
Dates:
1788-1870
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- Subject: Iron X
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- Aqueducts 1
- Canal aqueducts 1
- Canals 1
- Canals--United States 1
- Cast-iron 1
- Cement 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 7th Infantry. 1
- Civil War battles - Warm Sulphur Springs. 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coalfields 1
- Concrete 1
- Covered bridges 1
- Dams 1
- Engineering 1
- Engineering -- History 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- Flood dams and reservoirs 1
- Glass blowing and working 1
- Glass manufacture 1
- Historic preservation 1
- Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration 1
- Industrial Archaeology -- Australia 1
- Industrial Archaeology -- England 1
- Industrial Archaeology -- United States 1
- Industrial archaeology 1
- Inland navigation 1
- Iron 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Kanawha River (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha River (W. Va.) -- Navigation -- History 1
- Land. 1
- Locks (Hydraulic engineering) 1
- Maps. 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Maryland 1
- Milling machinery 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Mines and mineral resources 1
- Mines and mineral resources -- West Virginia 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Muskingum River (Ohio) 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Portland cement 1
- Science -- History 1
- Steel 1
- Suspension bridges 1
- Technology -- History 1
- Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Ala. and Miss.) 1
- Truss bridges 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- Waterways 1
- Weather 1
- Wheeling Bridge (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
- Wrought-iron 1 + ∧ less
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