Series 8. Addendum of 2021/04/05, 1768-2014

This addendum contains materials Kemp collected, worked on, and produced, which date between 1768-2014. Items of interest include materials on early oil drilling and Kemp’s trip to Canada, Fairbank Oil and the Canadian Oil Museum; materials on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, suspension bridges in France, the United Kingdom and the United States; mixed materials from his work on West Virginia covered bridges; paper on "Marc Seguin and the origins of the Modern Long Span Wire Suspension Bridge"; old postcards of United States and French suspension bridges and of West Virginia covered bridges; materials about King's Covered Bridge; the Wheeling Suspension Bridge and Independence Hall; an engineering paper on covered bridge restoration; mixed materials on the restoration of both Philippi and Barrackville Covered Bridges; materials from chapters of Kemp's book Essays on the History of Transportation and Technology; original documents and drawings from Bull Creek Bridge ca. 1855; a Mason-Dixon Line Map facsimile ca. 1768; The General Advertiser (Philadelphia) May 6, 1797. Also includes photos of West Virginia locks and dams, West Virginia covered bridges, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad stations/roundhouses, early West Virginia oil wells, old farm buildings, locks and dams, suspension bridges, etc.

Formats include: Photographic prints, photographic negatives, papers, drawings, newspaper, journals, postcards, facsimiles (including photocopies of originals), CDs, maps.

Subjects include: Canada, Fairbank Oil, Canadian Oil Museum, West Virginia, United Kingdom, Britain, France, Kings and Queens of Britain, Early Suspension Bridges, King's Covered Bridge, Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Wheeling Independence Hall, Wheeling Customs House, early oil drilling, early industry, West Virginia early oil drilling, Baltimore and Ohio railroad, railroad station, roundhouse, French suspension bridges, West Virginia suspension bridges, United States suspension bridges, covered bridges, West Virginia covered bridges, Philippi, Barrackville, King’s, locks and dams, old postcards, West Virginia postcards, covered bridge restoration, Essays on the History of Transportation and Technology, Mason-Dixon Line, General Advertiser, Bull Creek, farm buildings