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Box 18B

 Container

Contains 142 Results:

Wilbur Wright, Paul Tissandier, and an unknown assistant work on the launch ropes at Pau, 1909 Feb. 3

 Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 4, Item: 21
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. 3

Wilbur Wright adjusts the launch rope at Pau, Undated

 Item — Box: 18B, Folder: 4, Item: 22
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: Undated