Kemp Papers, Booklets and a Fairbank Oil Collection, ca. 1840s-2003

Interesting items of note are a collection on Fairbank Oil and the Oil Museum of Canada; patent photos for Kemp's book on patents; papers on the origins of Ontario oil, preserving covered bridges, industrial archaeology and various other topics; booklets produced by Kemp on “Bridge Engineering History” and “Wheeling Custom House”; and a clipped magazine article from Family Magazine on “Chain Bridge Over the Potomac.”

Formats: photographic prints, booklets, papers, magazine clipping

Subjects: oil wells; Fairbank Oil; Canada; Petrolia, Canada; Baines Pattern Multiple Pumper; peg well; Harwood Wells; Jones and Hammond Jack; Oil Museum of Canada; patents; Ontario oil; Pennsylvania oil wells; early oil wells; covered bridges; preservation covered bridges; industrial archaeology; bridge engineering history; Wheeling Custom House; Independence Hall; chain bridge