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Box 20A

 Container

Contains 6 Results:

The wreck viewed from the east showing the seats and wings., 1912 June 11

 Item — Box: 20A, Folder: 1, Item: 5
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

Orville Wright standing in the river between the pontoons of a Wright Flyer. Two men sit in the seats of the Flyer, 1913

 Item — Box: 20A, Folder: 2, Item: 5
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

Right profile view of a Wright Model G moving at speed, 1913 Nov.

 Item — Box: 20A, Folder: 3, Item: 5
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.

Right profile view of biplane glider with tail., 1928

 Item — Box: 20A, Folder: 4, Item: 5
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

A Wright Model A Flyer with spectators near a hangar at Indianapolis, 1910 June

 Item — Box: 20A, Folder: 5, Item: 5
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: 1910 June

Later print showing a Wright Model B Flyer sitting next to the hangar at Huffman Prairie, circa 1914

 Item — Box: 20A, Folder: 6, Item: 5
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 1914