Box 18B
Container
Contains 4 Results:
The launch derrick with weight suspended prior to a flight at Pau., 1909
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 4, Item: 27
Scope and Contents
Left rear view of the Wright Model A Flyer, with spectators and student pilots. Photo by Rol and Company, Paris.
Dates:
1909
Wright Model A Flyer, in flight, over ox carts at Pau, 1909
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 5, Item: 27
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
Italian colored novelty postcard showing two dogs holding paws flying over a city in a Wright Model A Flyer style airplane., 1909 May
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 6, Item: 27
Scope and Contents
Sent to the Wright Brothers by an unknown friend (C.J.B.) who references the Wright’s suit against the Herring-Curtiss Company, and Lt. Calderara’s accident, late May 1909.
Dates:
1909 May
Distant view of Orville Wright in conversation with General Hans G.H. von Plessing, aide-de-camp to the Kaiser, at Bornstedt Field near Potsdam, 1909 Oct. 15
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 7, Item: 27
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 Oct. 15
