Box 18B
Container
Contains 4 Results:
J. Callizo’s famous photograph showing Wilbur Wright in flight at Pau in 1909, while a photographer looks on holding a large view camera., 1909
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 5, Item: 18
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
Crowd of well-dressed spectators watching the Wright Model A Flyer in flight., 1909
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 6, Item: 18
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
An original illustrated color postcard by Eva Roemer with a poem verso, showing Orville Wright in flight as seen through the underbelly of a German police horse, at Templehof Field, 1909 Sept. 4
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 7, Item: 18
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 Sept. 4
Wilbur Wright and two assistants work on one of the pulleys on the launch rail at Pau while Orville Wright looks on., 1909
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 4, Item: 18
Scope and Contents
The assistants are identified as Duval La Chapelle and J. J. Lovelace.
Dates:
1909
