Box 18B
Container
Contains 4 Results:
An unknown pilot, probably Wilbur Wright, taking off in the Wright Model A Flyer at Pau before a large crowd of spectators, 1909
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 5, Item: 1
Scope and Contents
The hangar is also plainly in view.
Dates:
1909
Photographic postcard showing Wilbur Wright walking with his mechanics and Italian government officials at Centocelle., 1909
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 6, Item: 1
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
Photographic postcard showing spectators, a woman in white named Marie Mertens, and Orville Wright standing between the landing skids of the Wright Model A Flyer., 1909
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 7, Item: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Orville and Katharine Wright arrived in Berlin on August 19, 1909. Orville had come to fulfill a contract signed at Pau with the August Scherl Company, newspaper publishers, for public exhibition flights in Berlin, and with the Flugmaschine Wright Gesellschaft, or German Wright Flying Machine Company, for demonstration and training flights for student pilot Captain Paul Englehard. Orville flew exhibition flights at Tempelhof Field in Berlin between August 30 and September 18. He flew...
Dates:
1909
Wilbur Wright and a student pilot, possibly Paul Tissandier, seated in the Wright Model A Flyer at Pau, ready for take off, 1909
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 4, Item: 1
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
