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Box 17B

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

Orville Wright and Lt. Selfridge in flight, 1908 Sept. 17

 Item — Box: 17B, Folder: 7, Item: 19
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. 17

Another view taken at the same time showing Orville Wright in a flight before the same group of spectators at Fort Myer, 1908 Sept.

 Item — Box: 17B, Folder: 8, Item: 19
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.

A negative photostat copy of an image of Orville Wright flying at Fort Myer in September 1908., Undated

 Item — Box: 17B, Folder: 9, Item: 19
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