Box 17B
Container
Contains 3 Results:
Politicians and U.S. Army officers inspecting the Wright Model A Flyer on its launch rail at Fort Myer, Virginia, 1908 Sept.
Item — Box: 17B, Folder: 7, Item: 1
Scope and Contents
Those present and identified include Colonel “Cap” Hatfield, commandant of Fort Myer; Secretary of War Luke E. Wright; Major George Owen Squier; George C. Sweet; Richard B. Creecy; Jerome Fanciulli; French Attaché Jules H.F. Fournier and Truman H. Newberry.
Dates:
1908 Sept.
Orville Wright's first flight in the Wright Model A Flyer at Fort Myer during the Army trials., circa 1908
Item — Box: 17B, Folder: 8, Item: 1
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:
circa 1908
Wilbur Wright standing with (from right) U.S. Senator Stephen B. Elkins of West Virginia, and U.S. Vice President James S. Sherman, among others, on the parade ground at Fort Myer, 1909 June or July
Item — Box: 17B, Folder: 9, Item: 1
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:
1909 June or July
