Wheeling Custom House (also known as West Virginia Independence Hall) Metallurgical Testing, 1915, 1973-1996, and undated (includes facsimiles)

Kemp collaborated with Wayne Elban of Loyola College on the report “Metallographic Examination and Vickers Microindentation Hardness Testing of Historic Wrought Iron from the Wheeling Custom House.” The research culminated in the article “Metallurgical Assessment of Historic Wrought Iron: U.S. Custom House, Wheeling, West Virginia,” published in APT Bulletin, and the research aided Kemp as he restored the Wheeling Custom House (also known as West Virginia Independence Hall). The box includes drafts of the report, photographic prints, engineering drawings, scholarly journal articles, and correspondence. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: photographic prints, correspondence, and book excerpts. Subjects include the Wheeling Custom House in Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia; the I-beam; cast and wrought iron; metallurgical rolling methods; Vickers hardness test; stress loads; slags; and shock inductions.