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WB. Wright Brothers Related Collections

 Topic Guide
Identifier: WB
This classification groups together collections on the topic of Wright Brothers and their relations.

Found in 95 Collections and/or Records:

A Photographic Portfolio of Huffman Flying Field (MS-631)

 Collection
Identifier: MS-631
Abstract

The collection consists of 11 platinum palladium prints of photographs created at Huffman Prairie, featuring flight and architecture. This portfolio is limited edition set #1 out of 16 sets created.

Dates: 2007, 2014-2017

Randolph Edwards Photographs (SC-78)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-78
Scope and Contents

Photographs and postcards of Wright Flyers

Dates: circa 1910

Margaret Van Cleve Reeder Autobiography (SC-132)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-132
Scope and Contents

A three page typed portion of a autobiography of Margret Van Cleve who was the paternal grandmother of the Wright Brothers. It also includes a brief genealogy of the Van Cleve Reader family. Undated.

Dates: undated

Elizabeth Beck Rehling Papers (MS-593)

 Collection
Identifier: MS-593
Abstract

The Elizabeth Beck Rehling Papers consist of correspondence, research notes, and photographs related to her research on the relationship between her mother, Agnes Osborn Beck and Katharine Wright, sister of the Wright Brothers. It also includes her unpublished manuscript, The Third Wright Brother, about Katharine Wright, based on her memories as told to her by her mother Agnes and her own research.

Dates: 1899-2001

Laurence P. Richmond Papers (MS-594)

 Collection
Identifier: MS-594
Abstract

The collection consists primarily of information on the development of radio technologies at General Electric in the 1920s and of radio and radar technologies at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base from the 1930s through 1950s. Some information on the WPAFB Quarter Century Club is also included.

Dates: 1918-1974; Majority of material found within 1930-1960

"Ride the Wind" Collection (SC-87)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-87
Scope and Contents

Original typed screenplay about the Wright Brothers, written by Doug McIntyre.

Dates: 1991

Scientific Articles about Wright Brothers (SC-220)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-220
Scope and Contents

Six articles describing the scientific work of the Wright Brothers, dating between 1918 and 1929.

Dates: 1918-1929

Marjorie Stinson Diary (SC-393)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-393
Scope and Contents The collection consists of a single pocket size diary written by Marjorie Stinson during her time learning to fly at the Wright School of Aviation in Dayton, Ohio.The earliest entry is from June 19, 1914, and reads simply "Dayton Bound" with a sketch of an arrow underneath; that was the day she departed on that day from San Antonio, Texas. She arrived at Dayton on June 25, 1914, and on that same day made her first visit to the Huffman Prairie with Orville Wright. Entries continue...
Dates: 1914 - 1915

Henry Stout, Wright Brothers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-71
Abstract

This collection includes clippings, articles, pamphlets, photographs, postcards, and correspondence pertaining to Orville and Wilbur Wright.

Dates: 1903-1973; Majority of material found within 1948-1971

Susan Katherine Koerner Wright Photograph (SC-49)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-49
Scope and Contents

Daguerreotype image of Susan Koerner Wright in wood frame and two copy prints of the image.

Dates: circa 1850-1860