Series 4. Kemp’s Other Professional Activities, 1849, 1909, 1952-2018, bulk: Bulk, 1952–2018

The series includes materials Kemp collected and produced while serving professional organizations, including WVU. Some of these materials come from conferences that Kemp helped to organize. The series also includes materials Kemp collected when receiving recognition for his achievements. Finally, there are miscellaneous materials from his personal life.

Formats include draft monographs, correspondence, newsletters, applications for grants and awards, conference proposals, clippings, brochures, and photographic prints.

Subjects include Marc Séguin, Kemp’s affiliations at WVU, the ASCE, preserving engineering innovations, industrial archaeology, and a WVU exhibit honoring Kemp.

Highlights include early photographic prints of Kemp, Kemp’s correspondence with his parents from his time serving in the USACE, his original Fulbright scholarship, a construction hat, and a 1955 article by Kemp about American bridge designing.

Some material on conferences that Kemp organized appear in the series “Research Files,” sub-series “Bridges.” Kemp speaks about his professional activities in his oral histories in the series “Oral Histories.”