Series 1. Research Files -- Industrial Structures, 1807-2017 and undated

This sub-series includes the materials Kemp collected and produced while researching, documenting, and preserving other major industries and their associated structures. These industrial structures fall outside the realm of bridges, buildings, or waterways. This series also includes Kemp’s research on industrial archaeology.

Formats include handwritten notes, book excerpts, reports, brochures, photographic prints, engineering drawings, drawings, computer-generated data, clippings, correspondence, newsletters, student papers, oral history transcripts, and grant applications. Significant amounts of the material are facsimiles.

Subjects include the B&O Railroad; the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike that stretches across West Virginia and Virginia; the Weston and Gauley Bridge Turnpike located at Burnsville, Braxton County, West Virginia; iron; coal and coke; nail making; West Virginia mills; West Virginia mines; West Virginia glass factories; water towers; industry in West Virginia and Pennsylvania; and industrial archaeology in West Virginia, Australia, and Great Britain.

Research and drafts of essays on industrial structures and industrial archaeology may also appear in the following series: “Kemp’s Library,” “Kemp’s Professional Writings,” “Kemp’s Other Professional Activities,” and “Oversize Materials.” Research on industrial structures may also appear in the following sub-series within the series “Research Files”: “Engineers, the history of engineering, and general historical topics.”