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Box 17B

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

Spectators at the scene of the world's first fatal airplane crash., 1908 Sept. 17

 Item — Box: 17B, Folder: 7, Item: 18
Scope and Contents

The crumpled wing of the Wright Model A Flyer can be seen in the center.

Dates: 1908 Sept. 17

Spectators watching Orville Wright flying at Fort Myer, 1908 Sept.

 Item — Box: 17B, Folder: 8, Item: 18
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.

Group photograph showing (from right) Katharine Wright, Orville Wright, Mrs. Ralph Van Deman, Charlie Taylor, and Wilbur Wright, among others., Undated

 Item — Box: 17B, Folder: 9, Item: 18
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