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Box 20B

 Container

Contains 5 Results:

Right profile view of the Wright Model L Flyer biplane at an airfield in Dayton, 1916

 Item — Box: 20B, Folder: 7, 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: 1916

Griffith Brewer and Alexander Ogilvie at Huffman Prairie, 1913

 Item — Box: 20B, Folder: 8, 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: 1913

John B. Moissant’s Blériot XI monoplane., 1910 Oct.

 Item — Box: 20B, Folder: 9, Item: 10
Scope and Contents From the File:

Most images show the aircraft outside their hangars.

Dates: 1910 Oct.

William Avery preparing for a rail launched glide in a Chanute biplane glider at St. Louis, 1904

 Item — Box: 20B, Folder: 10, 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: 1904

Right front view of Pilot McMahon seated in the Lemp machine., 1924

 Item — Box: 20B, Folder: 12, Item: 10
Scope and Contents From the File:

All original U.S. Army Air Corps photographs. The “Lemp” Flyer was modified with the addition of ailerons instead of wing warping and an eight-cylinder Rausenberger engine. Howard Rinehart used the machine as a trainer in 1916 at Mineola on Long Island. This Flyer was last flown by Lt. John A. Macready during the International Air Races held at Dayton in 1924. It is today in the collection of the United States Air Force Museum.

Dates: 1924