Croton Aqueduct, 1836/2002

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Box 325

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Kemp studied the Old Croton Aqueduct with student Ed Winant as part of Winant's dissertation. The research culminated in the article "John Jervis and the Hydraulic Design of the Old Croton Aqueduct" in the journal Canal History and Technology Proceedings. Kemp also advised on the exhibit "The Old Croton Aqueduct: Rural Resources Meet Urban Needs" at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, Westchester County, New York. He also campaigned for Old Croton to become a National Historic Landmark. The box includes reports, report drafts, event programs, notes, advertisements, brochures, exhibit proposals, bibliographies, engineering drawings, handwritten reports, and scholarly journal articles. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: photographic prints, book excerpts, drawings, reports, maps, engineering drawings, budget lists, agreements and contracts, articles, lists of people, and clippings. Subjects include the effect of the Croton Aqueduct in New York City, New York; John B. Jervis; the training of United States civil engineers; New York City water and hydraulic systems; the hydraulic grade line; aqueducts in New York; European aqueducts; the Manhattan Valley, the Harlem Valley, and French hydraulic engineers like Antoine de Chézy and Pierre Louis Georges DuBuat. Highlights include the National Historic Site nomination form for the Old Croton Aqueduct.

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