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Box 18B

 Container

Contains 4 Results:

Another view of Wilbur Wright landing the Wright Model A Flyer before the same crowd of spectators at Pau, 1909

 Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 5, Item: 4
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 showing left rear view of Wright Model A Flyer being moved across the field., 1909

 Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 6, Item: 4
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

Orville Wright standing, with a guest, possibly a student pilot, seated in the Wright Model A Flyer., 1909

 Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 7, Item: 4
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

Count and Countess de Lambert, Wilbur Wright, and the Wright Model A Flyer prior to a flight at Pau, 1909 Feb. 15

 Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 4, Item: 4
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