IHTIA Manuscripts and Dr. Kemp's Correspondence, 1987-1991 and undated (includes facsimiles)

Kemp founded the IHTIA in 1989 and served as its first director. This box includes early documents for the Institute, including correspondence, contracts, bound copies of the United States Congressional Series Set, proposals, draft proposals, reports, meeting agendas, meeting minutes, handwritten meeting notes, budget lists, memorandums, scholarly articles, exhibit outlines, brochures, container lists, clippings, postcards, newsletters, and mockups for an IHTIA report cover page. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: contracts, clippings, newsletters, engineering drawings, correspondence, trade catalogues, and computer assignment lists. Subjects include funding the IHTIA, finding space on WVU’s campus for the IHTIA, the IHTIA Advisory Committee, the HABS recording project for High Gate historic home, the history of WVU, industrial history, technology used to conduct preservation studies, the discipline of historic preservation, and industrial archaeology. Relevant organizations include the IHTIA, WVU, WVU Research Foundation, HABS/HAER, NPS, the West Virginia State Historic Preservation Office, and the Division of Highways. Highlights include Kemp’s correspondence with then-House of Representatives member Alan B. Mollohan and correspondence with administration at WVU about starting the IHTIA. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 13, Folder 7: two engineering drawings (undated), six clippings (1989-1991), and two pages of a facsimile book excerpt (1879).