Box 18B
Container
Contains 4 Results:
Ten people, including Capt Paul N. Lucas-Girardville and Wilbur Wright, hauling the launch ropes., 1909
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 4, Item: 26
Scope and Contents
The Wright Model A Flyer is clearly visible, likewise the flying field. Photo by Filiatre, Paris.
Dates:
1909
Group, including children, sitting in a small car., 1909
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 5, Item: 26
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
Caricature postcard by L. Olivieri showing Wilbur Wright using a hand drill. Given to Wilbur Wright “in admiration,” Rome, 1909 Apr.
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 6, Item: 26
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 Apr.
Orville Wright with the Baron Holzing-Berstett’s at Tegel Field, Berlin., 1909
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 7, Item: 26
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
