West Virginia Historic Bridges Report (Box 1 of 3), 1973-1993 (Includes facsimiles)

Kemp prepared the report “West Virginia Historic Bridges” for the West Virginia Department of Culture and History, the West Virginia Division of Highways and the Federal Highway Administration. It appears the materials were originally part of a collection of papers within an IHTIA archive, because the box includes a finding aid of the “Emory L. Kemp Collection West Virginia Historic Bridges.” The box includes handwritten notes, drafts of the West Virginia Historic Bridges report, data entry cards, contact sheets, negatives and photographic prints. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: maps, engineering drawings, book excerpts and photographic prints. Subjects include bridges of West Virginia across many counties, iron truss bridges, Burr truss bridges, covered bridges, restoration of bridges, arches, and girders. Highlights include the finding aid for the IHTIA’s collection of Kemp’s West Virginia Historic Bridges collection, and Kemp’s notebooks recording West Virginia bridge measurements.