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Box 18A

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

Photograph of the front of the hangar at Pont-Long flying field, Pau, 1909 Jan. 22

 Item — Box: 18A, Folder: 2, Item: 24
Scope and Contents

Workmen complete the hangar while Katharine and Orville Wright stand with guests before it.

Dates: 1909 Jan. 22

Katharine Wright explaining something to the camp chef at Pau, 1909

 Item — Box: 18A, Folder: 3, Item: 24
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

At the flying field at Pau, Alfonso XIII arrives in an automobile and is greeted by French officials, 1909 Feb. 20 (morning)

 Item — Box: 18A, Folder: 1, Item: 24
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 (morning)