Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Emory Kemp Glass and Ceramics Lantern Slide Collection

Summary

Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0138
Creators:
Kemp, Emory L. (Professor)
Dates:
1930's.
Languages:
English
.
Physical Description:
0.1 Cubic feet
1 box
Repository:
Container:
1
A collection of lantern slides used as teaching aids by Dr. Emory Leland Kemp, Jr. (1931-2020) founder of the Department of the History of Science and Technology, West Virgnia University.

Scope and Contents note

Scope and Contents note
Seventeen photographic lantern slides on glass and pottery manufacture. Includes diagrams of a gas-fired glass tank, the Fourcault process for making plate glass, the Colburn process for making sheet glass, a recuperative glass tank, silica minerals, a graph of the time-temperature curve for annealing flat glass, and pictures of the Kastner Neill Process calcining furnace, a pug mill, kilns at West Virginia University and pottery made there, and a porcelain decorating factory.

Biographical/Historical note

Biographical/Historical note
Dr. Emory Leland Kemp, Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois on 1931 October 1. He held a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He was a Civil Engineering Professor at West Virginia University and established the University's History of Science and Technology program. He also founded the Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology. One of his projects was the roof project for the Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Austrailia. Dr. Kemp was an avid Historic Preservationist and he assisted in getting many locations on the National Register of Historic Places and as National Historic Landmarks. He was co-Author of a book on the Wheeling Suspension Bridge Wheeling, West Virginia.These slides were used by Dr. Kemp as teaching aids at West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Dr. Kemp died 2020 January 20 in Morgantown, West Virginia. His body was donated to West Virginia University for study.

Administration

Author
C.A. Orr
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Collection donated by Professor Emory L. Kemp, 1985, May 14.
Processing Information
Collection processed by C. A. Orr, 1989

Using the Collection

Glass plates, 3-1/4" x 4", silver gelatin.
Preferred Citation
Emory Kemp Glass and Ceramics Lantern Slides, ca. 1930s, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Keywords

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Potters Occupation Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
West Virginia Geographic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Photographs -- Porcelain, American -- decorating Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Photographs -- Pottery industry -- U.S.A. Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Photographs -- China painting -- United States Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Photographs -- Ceramics -- United States Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Glass manufacture Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Ceramicists Occupation Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
West Virginia University. Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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