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Box 18B

 Container

Contains 4 Results:

Wilbur Wright flying over ox carts, 1909

 Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 5, Item: 10
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

Small print showing the Wright Model A Flyer on the launch rail with a group of spectators standing nearby., 1909

 Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 6, Item: 10
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

Crown Princess Cecilie of Prussia, 1909

 Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 7, Item: 10
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 “hobbling” Katharine Wright’s skirt prior to their flight, 1909 Feb. 15

 Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 4, Item: 10
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. 15