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Box 20A

 Container

Contains 6 Results:

A soldier stands at the roped off wreck of Arthur Welsh’s Flyer in a field of flowers at College Park, 1912 June 11

 Item — Box: 20A, Folder: 1, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the File:

This folder consists of two sets of ten original 8 x 10 inch prints sent to or collected by Orville Wright, with labels indicating that they were taken as part of an investigation. Welsh stalled and crashed in a Wright Model CM-1 killing himself and passenger Lt. Leighton Hazelhurst on June 11, 1912.

Dates: 1912 June 11

Left front view of a Wright Model B Flyer fitted with twin, stepped pontoons inside the factory, 1913

 Item — Box: 20A, Folder: 2, Item: 2
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: 1913

Assembly and testing of a Wright Model G flying boat near the Miami River, 1913 Nov.

 Item — Box: 20A, Folder: 3, Item: 2
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: 1913 Nov.

“Bi-multiplane” glider model with moveable main panel control (side view)., 1928

 Item — Box: 20A, Folder: 4, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Series:

These photographs are of models of Chanute’s gliders found at the Chicago Academy of Sciences, and sent to Orville Wright by “Mitchell” of Popular Aviation, October 1928.

Dates: 1928

Left rear view of German-built Wright Flyer on show in Riga, Latvia with three Army officers and an unidentified man, circa 1910

 Item — Box: 20A, Folder: 5, Item: 2
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: circa 1910

Two men watching a Wright Model A Flyer in flight at Huffman Prairie, circa 1911

 Item — Box: 20A, Folder: 6, Item: 2
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: circa 1911