Series 3. Kemp’s Professional Writings, 1804–2015

This series includes published and unpublished copies of Kemp’s academic scholarship. It includes drafts of monographs where Kemp did not also collect significant research material for the preparation of the monograph (for draft copies of the works The Great Kanawha Navigation or Taming the Muskingum, consult the series, “Research Files,” sub-series “Research on Waterways”).

Formats include published scholarly articles, published scholarly book reviews, monograph drafts, correspondence, photographic prints, engineering drawings, handwritten and typed notes, and clippings. Significant amounts of the material are facsimiles.

Subjects include Grafton, Taylor County, West Virginia; Tygart Dam, Taylor County, West Virginia; historic structures in Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia; historic bridges; cement mills on the Potomac River; wastewater treatment; historic preservation; and industrial archaeology.

Drafts of professional writings may also appear in the series “Kemp’s Other Professional Activities” and “Research Files.”