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Box 19C

 Container

Contains 93 Results:

Small original print showing a Wright Model A Flyer in flight at College Park, 1909 Oct.

 Item — Box: 19C, Folder: 12, Item: 9
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 Oct.

Small print showing a Wright Model A Flyer in flight at College Park in 1909, with spectators standing near the launch derrick., 1909

 Item — Box: 19C, Folder: 12, Item: 10
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

Col. Charles de Forest Chandler seated holding a machine gun mounted in a Wright Flyer with Lieutenant Kirtland piloting, 1912

 Item — Box: 19C, Folder: 12, Item: 11
Scope and Contents

Described as the first occasion when a machine gun was flown and fired at a ground target.

Dates: 1912