Emory Kemp Glass and Ceramics Lantern Slide Collection
name: label: Creator
content: Kemp, Emory L. (Professor)
label: Names
content: West Virginia University.
place: label: Place
content: West Virginia
topic: label: Occupation
content: Potters
label: Occupation
content: Ceramicists
label: Topic
content: Photographs -- Porcelain, American -- decorating
label: Topic
content: Photographs -- Pottery industry -- U.S.A.
label: Topic
content: Photographs -- China painting -- United States
label: Topic
content: Photographs -- Ceramics -- United States
label: Topic
content: Glass manufacture
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Professor Emory L. Kemp, 1985, May 14.
creator: label: Creator
content: Kemp, Emory L. (Professor)
abstract: label: Summary
content: 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.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: 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.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.1 Cubic feet (1 box)
label: Extent
content: Glass plates, 3-1/4" x 4", silver gelatin.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1930's.
container: label: Container
content: Box 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0138
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by C. A. Orr, 1989
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: 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.