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Kemp wrote the book The Wheeling Suspension Bridge: A Pictorial Heritage with Beverly Fluty. This box includes materials Kemp collected in preparation for the book, including photographic prints, photographic negatives, a draft of the book, lists, drawings, reports, postcards, and floppy disks. Subjects include the Lehigh Gap Bridge in Palmerton, Pennsylvania; Wheeling Suspension Bridge in Wheeling, West Virginia; Charles Ellet Jr.; the bridge's conditions; and the bridge's use. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 10, Folder 3: one engineering drawing (undated) and one map (undated).

Kemp consulted on the restoration of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge and co-wrote multiple books on the Wheeling Suspension Bridge, including The Wheeling Suspension Bridge: A Pictorial Heritage (with Beverly Fluty). This box includes his research materials, including correspondence, handwritten notes, programs and invitations, scholarly articles, reports, magazine clippings, photographic prints, contact sheets and postcards. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: charters and reports before the West Virginia state legislature, correspondence, scholarly articles, photographic prints, contact sheets, drawings and engineering drawings. Subjects include the Wheeling Suspension Bridge in Wheeling, West Virginia; suspension bridges of France and the United States; other bridges in Wheeling, West Virginia; Charles Ellet Jr.; the Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company; and the Ohio River. The following oversize items were moved to Box 344: two maps (undated), and ten sheets of engineering drawings (undated). This box was originally titled "Illustrated History of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge," so may have been used to inform Kemp's work on The Wheeling Suspension Bridge: A Pictorial Heritage.