Kemp, Emory L.
Person
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
West Virginia University, College of Arts and Sciences, Centennial History, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3121
Overview
A collection assembled on behalf of the WVU College of Arts and Sciences by Dr. Barbara Howe, WVU Department of History, for the Centennial History Project. Most of the records relate to the Humanities program at West Virginia University. Includes mostly copies of materials from former students, as well as transcriptions of interviews with former faculty or their spouses.
Dates:
1924-1992
Filtered By
- Subject: Wheeling (W. Va.) X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
- Aqueducts 1
- Canal aqueducts 1
- Canals 1
- Canals--United States 1
- Cast-iron 1
- Cement 1
- Civil rights 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coalfields 1
- Concrete 1
- Covered bridges 1
- Dams 1
- Engineering 1
- Engineering -- History 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
- Kanawha River (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha River (W. Va.) -- Navigation -- History 1
- Locks (Hydraulic engineering) 1
- Milling machinery 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Mines and mineral resources 1
- Mines and mineral resources -- West Virginia 1
- Muskingum River (Ohio) 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
- Waterways 1
- West Virginia University - Appalachian Center. 1
- West Virginia University - College of Art & Sciences - Centennial History. 1
- West Virginia University - buildings - Mountaineer Field. 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Wheeling Bridge (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- Wrought-iron 1 + ∧ less
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