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Box 17B

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

Rear view of the Wright Model A Flyer taking off at Fort Myer, 1908 Sept.

 Item — Box: 17B, Folder: 7, Item: 14
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: 1908 Sept.

Orville Wright piloting a Wright Model A Flyer at Fort Myer, Undated

 Item — Box: 17B, Folder: 8, Item: 14
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: Undated

Front view of the Wright 1909 U.S. Army Signal Corps Flyer on the launch rail at Fort Myer with soldiers, spectators and the buildings of Fort Myer behind., 1909

 Item — Box: 17B, Folder: 9, Item: 14
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