Scope and Contents
Kemp helped to engineer the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia. Later, he researched industrial history in Australia. This box includes materials commemorating his work on the Opera House and contains his research, including correspondence, books, facsimile articles, conference proceedings, magazines, journal articles, etc. Subjects include Australian bridges, Australian tourism, Ove Arup, G.J. Zunz, Jørn Utzon, engineering of the Sydney Opera House and problems with the Sydney Opera House. Highlights include a facsimile sheet of calculations planning the Sydney Opera House. The following items were moved to Box 342: One page calculations of the Sydney Opera House (undated), one page facsimile blueprint detail (undated), one clipping (undated), one scholarly journal article, “Problems and Progress in the Construction of Sydney Opera House” (1965), and one newsletter from Eberly College of Arts and Sciences (1997).
Dates
- Creation: 1957-1996, bulk 1968-1973
- Creation: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1968–1973
Repository Details
Part of the West Virginia and Regional History Center Repository
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