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Box 15B

 Container

Contains 2 Results:

Distant view showing the Wright 1901 glider in flight with the camp beyond., 1901

 Item — Box: 15B, Folder: 5, Item: 43
Scope and Contents From the Record Group: This series includes many original photographic prints made by the Wrights from their own negatives shortly after the images were taken. The Wrights exposed at least 303 gelatin dry plate negatives in the course of documenting their process of invention. All of their glass plate negatives were given to the Library of Congress in 1949, but many of their original prints remained with the Estate of Orville Wright. Many of the Wright Brothers’ original negatives were damaged in Dayton’s great...
Dates: 1901

Cropped image showing one of the Wright brothers gliding down slope, right wing missing from image frame., 1902 Oct.

 Item — Box: 15B, Folder: 6, Item: 43
Scope and Contents From the Record Group: This series includes many original photographic prints made by the Wrights from their own negatives shortly after the images were taken. The Wrights exposed at least 303 gelatin dry plate negatives in the course of documenting their process of invention. All of their glass plate negatives were given to the Library of Congress in 1949, but many of their original prints remained with the Estate of Orville Wright. Many of the Wright Brothers’ original negatives were damaged in Dayton’s great...
Dates: 1902 Oct.