Box 20A
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Photo postcard of Fowler’s first ever takeoff from a railroad track, 1911
Item — Box: 20A, Folder: 5, Item: 17
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
Found in:
Special Collections
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Wright Brothers Collection (MS-1)
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PART 3: PHOTOGRAPHS
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SERIES 20: WRIGHT AIRCRAFT AND PILOTS
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Box 20, File 5: Miscellaneous Wright and other Aircraft and Pilots, 1909-1912
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End of pilot Robert Fowler’s 112 day coast to coast flight from California to Florida, at Jacksonville