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Cologne, Germany to Coblenz, Germany, May-June 1919
File — Box 7, Folder: 3
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
The Harvey Dressler Collection is about the Dressler family, predominantly about Florence Bremberger Dressler. The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, books and yearbooks, maps, and newspaper clippings of Harvey Dressler, Florence Bremberger Dressler, and Mary Dressler Stansell. Within each series, the collection is ordered chronologically.Series I, Personal Information, contains correspondence, educational documents, photographs, financial and legal documents,...
Dates:
May-June 1919
Found in:
Special Collections
Copy of email correspondence with Regis Pluchet, the French Journalist with the creator of the collection Mary Coker Joslin.
Item — Folder 1, Item: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection consists of two copies of a translated account of a 9 year-old French boy who was present at a demonstration flight that Wilbur Wright did near Le Mans, France in 1908. The translation is an extract from “Journal of a Child of the Belle Epoque.” The journal is a manuscript of Roger Verdier who wrote of his account. Included in the translation is an introduction as well as commentary by Regis Pluchet a French Journalist who sent this information to the creator of the...
Dates:
1908
Found in:
Special Collections
Dans son Ballon, Camille Dartois, circa 1880
Item — Map-case WB-8, Folder: 2
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
The collection represents the artistic depiction of early aeronautics through color lithographs, including air balloons, monoplanes, biplanes, and air show promotion. The lithographs depict a Louis Godard balloon (circa 1866), Camille Dartois balloon (circa 1880), Boulard Voltaire (circa 1884), Sauvetage de l'aerostier by A.L. Crespin (circa 1900), Atterissage perilleux by A.L. Crespin (circa 1900), Coupe Gordon Bennett winner Curtiss (1909), Grande Semaine d'aviation de Caen (1910), Wright...
Dates:
circa 1880
Found in:
Special Collections
Dollfus, Charles. Histoire de l’Aeronautique / texte et documentation de Charles Dollfus & Henri Bouche. Paris: L’Illustration, 1932
Item — Section Catalog, Item: TL515.D6 1932
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
The Wright Brothers Collection housed in Special Collections and Archives in the Wright State University Libraries is one of the most complete collections of Wright material in the world. It includes the Wrights' own technical and personal library, family papers including letters, diaries, financial records, genealogical files, and other documents detailing the lives and work of Wilbur and Orville Wright and the Wright Family. It also includes awards, certificates, medals, albums,...
Dates:
1932
Found in:
Special Collections
"Dosuments D’Etudes Aeroportees", Oct 1957
File — Box 61, Folder: 11
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
The Dave Gold Parachute Collection is a very large, complex collection of papers, research reports, blueprints, photographs, film, books, newspapers, magazines, and scrapbooks. When it was received by Special Collections and Archives there was virtually no organization to the collection and there were many duplicate items in the collection. The collection is divided into nine series, many with multiple subseries. Since the finding aid is over 200 pages in length, a Finding Aid Index is...
Dates:
Oct 1957
Found in:
Special Collections
Drzewiecki, S[tephan]. De la Nécessité Urgente de Créer un Laboratoire d'essais Aërodynamiques. Paris: Librairie des Sciences Aéronautiques, 1909
Item — Box PAM-6, Folder: 101, Item: 2
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
The Wright Brothers Collection housed in Special Collections and Archives in the Wright State University Libraries is one of the most complete collections of Wright material in the world. It includes the Wrights' own technical and personal library, family papers including letters, diaries, financial records, genealogical files, and other documents detailing the lives and work of Wilbur and Orville Wright and the Wright Family. It also includes awards, certificates, medals, albums,...
Dates:
1909
Found in:
Special Collections
Drzewiecki, S[tephan]. Des Hélices Aériennes. Théorie générale de Propulseurs hélicoïdaux. Paris: Librairie des Sciences Aeronautiques, 1909
Item — Box PAM-6, Folder: 101, Item: 1
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
The Wright Brothers Collection housed in Special Collections and Archives in the Wright State University Libraries is one of the most complete collections of Wright material in the world. It includes the Wrights' own technical and personal library, family papers including letters, diaries, financial records, genealogical files, and other documents detailing the lives and work of Wilbur and Orville Wright and the Wright Family. It also includes awards, certificates, medals, albums,...
Dates:
1909
Found in:
Special Collections
Eiffel, Gustave. La Résistance de L'Air et L'Aviation Experiences Effectuees au Laboratoire du Champ-De-Mars. 2d ed. Paris: H. Dunod et E. Pinat, 1911
Item — Section Catalog, Item: TL570.E5
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
The Wright Brothers Collection housed in Special Collections and Archives in the Wright State University Libraries is one of the most complete collections of Wright material in the world. It includes the Wrights' own technical and personal library, family papers including letters, diaries, financial records, genealogical files, and other documents detailing the lives and work of Wilbur and Orville Wright and the Wright Family. It also includes awards, certificates, medals, albums,...
Dates:
1911
Found in:
Special Collections
"Essais De Patachutes Dans La Grande Soufflerie Sonique De Modane-Avrieux", 1969
File — Box 61, Folder: 13
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
The Dave Gold Parachute Collection is a very large, complex collection of papers, research reports, blueprints, photographs, film, books, newspapers, magazines, and scrapbooks. When it was received by Special Collections and Archives there was virtually no organization to the collection and there were many duplicate items in the collection. The collection is divided into nine series, many with multiple subseries. Since the finding aid is over 200 pages in length, a Finding Aid Index is...
Dates:
1969
Found in:
Special Collections
Ferber, Ferdinand. L'Aviation. Ses Débuts-Son Développement, De Crête à Crête, De Ville à Ville, De Continent à Continent, . . ., 1908
Item — Section Catalog, Item: TL 670 F44 1904
Scope and Contents
Contains the essay, “Orville et Wilbur Wright”, pgs. 49-55. Marginal lineations, pg. 20-1, regarding aviation history; 34, Otto Lilienthal; 56, 70, “Ferber a la Poursuite Des Wright, De 1902 a 1906”; 83, “Wright de 1903 à 1907 ou le soi disant mystère des Wright”, which includes the text of a Wright Brothers’ letter of October 9, 1905, to Ferber, answering “inquiries in regard to the practicality of our flyer”; 116, 21, Louis Blériot; 128-9, Voisin Brothers.
Dates:
1908
Found in:
Special Collections
