Charles Ellet Research, 1816-1862, 1916-1939, 1969-1998 (includes facsimiles)

Kemp researched Charles Ellet Jr. as part of his restoration of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge, and he eventually published several articles on the nineteenth century engineer. Kemp received assistance from Don Sayenga, who was researching John A. Roebling. This box contains materials from Kemp’s research, including correspondence, notes, transcriptions of correspondence, lectures, reports, essays, clippings, brochures, and journal article drafts. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: book excerpts, correspondence, burial ephemera, reports, bound copies of the United States Congressional Series Set. Proposals, engineering drawings, building specifications, charters, family trees, finding aids, clippings, and sheet music. Subjects include the Ellet family; Ellet’s life; John A. Roebling; the Wheeling Suspension Bridge over the Ohio River in Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia; the Fairmount Bridge over the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; a proposed bridge over the Mississippi River; and a proposed bridge over the Potomac River. The following oversize items were moved to Box 344: two facsimile sheets of book excerpts (1848) and two facsimile sheets of correspondence (1839).