Box 18B
Container
Contains 4 Results:
Wilbur Wright flying the Wright Model A Flyer with a passenger on board at Pau, 1909 Feb.
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 5, Item: 15
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.
Wilbur and Orville Wright standing with a small group of men., 1909
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 6, Item: 15
Scope and Contents
A woman is standing in the foreground.
Dates:
1909
German Wright Flying Machine Company photograph of the smashed bottom wing and undercarriage of Captain Paul Engelhard’s machine., 1909
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 7, Item: 15
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
J. J. Lovelace and Duval La Chapelle assembling a Wright Model A Flyer in the hangar at Pau, 1909
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 4, Item: 15
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
