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Box 18A

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

The Wright Model A Flyer, with motor running, on the launch rail at Pau, France, with Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright, and Edward VII (seated), as well as other spectators and officials, 1909 Mar. 17

 Item — Box: 18A, Folder: 1, Item: 3
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 Mar. 17

Northcliffe and Balfour standing in the propeller wash of the Wright Model A Flyer at Pau, 1909 Feb. 11

 Item — Box: 18A, Folder: 2, Item: 3
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. 11

A group of aviators standing near the Wright Model A Flyer at Pau, 1909 Feb. 8

 Item — Box: 18A, Folder: 3, Item: 3
Scope and Contents

Left to right, Louis Blériot, Capt. Paul N. Lucas-Girardville, Count Castillon de Saint-Victor, and Paul Tissandier.

Dates: 1909 Feb. 8