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
Mrs. Louise Morris, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1808
Scope and Contents
Materials Collected by Mrs. Louise Morris, genealogist and authority on local history. The collection includes a notebook kept by J. H. Wherry, a student at Jefferson College, Pa., in 1859; a genealogy of the DeVaul, Haun, [F]ast families of Marion and Monongalia counties, 1817-1957; an essay on "Immigration" by George Whitham, 1896, favoring immigration restriction because of the increased number coming from " the Latin races of southeastern Europe;" land surveys from dead books, 1827-1933,...
Dates:
1859-1964
Filtered By
- Subject: Mills and mill-work X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Aqueducts 1
- Canal aqueducts 1
- Canals 1
- Canals--United States 1
- Cast-iron 1
- Cement 1
- Cheat River (W. Va. and Pa.) 1
- Church buildings 1
- Churches -- Fairview Church 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 14th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 17th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 1st Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 1st Infantry. Company A 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 1st Light Artillery. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 3rd Cavalry 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 6th Cavalry, Company A. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 7th Volunteer Infantry. 1
- Clinton District, Monongalia County. 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coalfields 1
- Concrete 1
- Confederate soldiers - Monongalia County 1
- Coopers Rock State Forest (W. Va.) 1
- Covered bridges 1
- Dams 1
- Deckers Creek 1
- Engineering 1
- Engineering -- History 1
- Flood dams and reservoirs 1
- Forts. SEE ALSO Civil War - Fort. 1
- Genealogy 1
- Glass blowing and working 1
- Glass manufacture 1
- Greene County (Pa.) 1
- Hacker Valley. 1
- Halleck Community 1
- Historic preservation 1
- Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration 1
- Immigration. 1
- Industrial Archaeology -- Australia 1
- Industrial Archaeology -- England 1
- Industrial Archaeology -- United States 1
- Industrial archaeology 1
- Inland navigation 1
- Iron 1
- Jefferson College, Pa. 1
- Kanawha River (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha River (W. Va.) -- Navigation -- History 1
- Kern's Fort. 1
- Land. 1
- Locks (Hydraulic engineering) 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Milling machinery 1
- Mines and mineral resources 1
- Mines and mineral resources -- West Virginia 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Muskingum River (Ohio) 1
- Portland cement 1
- Preston County Courthouse. 1
- Raven Rocks 1
- Revolutionary War. 1
- Robinson's Run. 1
- Science -- History 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Steel 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Suspension bridges 1
- Technology -- History 1
- Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Ala. and Miss.) 1
- Truss bridges 1
- Uffington. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Waterways 1
- West Virginia University - Drill Field 1
- West Virginia University - buildings - Main Library. 1
- West Virginia University - buildings - Martin Hall. 1
- Wheeling Bridge (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
- White Rocks -- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Wrought-iron 1 + ∧ less
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