Box 18B
Container
Contains 4 Results:
Wilbur Wright landing the Wright Model A Flyer with a crowd of spectators watching including Mr. and Mrs. Hart O. Berg, at Pau, 1909
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 5, Item: 3
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
Photo postcard of Hart O. Berg, Major General Mario Moris (Director of Aviation for Italy), and other spectators at Centocelle., 1909
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 6, Item: 3
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 assistant preparing the German-built, Wright Model A Flyer for a flight, while a man, possibly one of Orville Wright’s student pilots, sits at the controls., 1909
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 7, Item: 3
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
Wilbur Wright preparing for a flight at Pau with Countess de Lambert as a passenger, 1909 Feb. 15
Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 4, Item: 3
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. 15
