Box 16A
Container
Contains 3 Results:
Chanute’s glider, fully assembled indoors at Pasadena, right profile view, 1902 Sept. 8
Item — Box: 16A, Folder: 1, Item: 2
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 Sept. 8
Left rear view of the 1902 glider fitted with a twin moveable vertical rudder, gliding toward the ocean, 1903 Oct.
Item — Box: 16A, Folder: 2, Item: 2
Scope and Contents
From the File:
The Wright Brothers were at Kill Devil Hills from September 25 to December 21, 1903. They were visited by George A. Spratt and Octave Chanute.
Dates:
1903 Oct.
The 1903 Flyer following the fourth and final flight., 1903 Dec. 17
Item — Box: 16A, Folder: 3, Item: 2
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:
1903 Dec. 17
