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Box 19B

 Container

Contains 13 Results:

Wright Model B Flyer being hoisted from the Mississippi River., 1912

 Item — Box: 19B, Folder: 7, Item: 12
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: 1912

Postcard published by M.M. Wood, Berwyn, Illinois showing M. M. Wood and Orville Wright watching St. Croix Johnstone’s fatal crash into Lake Michigan at the International Aviation Meet, Chicago, 1911 Aug.

 Item — Box: 19B, Folder: 7, Item: 13
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: 1911 Aug.