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Box 18B

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Contains 1 Result:

Lithographic postcard showing caricatures of Louis Blériot, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, and Wilbur Wright, seated together on a cloud and each carrying their own flying machines., 1909

 Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 7, Item: 19
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