Box 18B
Container
Contains 4 Results:
A group of spectators watch the Wright Model A Flyer in flight at Pau, 1909 Feb.
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 5, Item: 14
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.
Small print showing Orville and Wilbur Wright smiling in conversation with an unknown woman., 1909
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 6, Item: 14
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
Another German Wright Flying Machine Company photograph of Captain Paul Engelhard’s wreck., 1909
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 7, Item: 14
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
Duval La Chapelle and J.J. Lovelace working on the motor of a newly arrived Wright Model A Flyer in the hangar at Pau, 1909
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 4, Item: 14
Scope and Contents
Postcard sent to Katharine Wright in Dayton by Lovelace, June 10, 1909.
Dates:
1909
