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Box 18A

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

Photographic postcard showing members of the Aéro-Club du Béarn preparing the balloon Icare for a flight., 1909 Feb. 25

 Item — Box: 18A, Folder: 2, Item: 18
Scope and Contents

Orville and Katharine Wright are seated at the far left. Photograph by Callizo.

Dates: 1909 Feb. 25

Katharine Wright watches a flight through binoculars at Pau. Other spectators include Count and Countess Charles and Cordelia de Lambert, 1909

 Item — Box: 18A, Folder: 3, 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: 1909

Hart O. Berg and Wilbur Wright assist Alfonso XIII in getting into the passenger seat of the Wright Model A Flyer at Pau, 1909 Feb. 20

 Item — Box: 18A, Folder: 1, 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: 1909 Feb. 20