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Box 20B

 Container

Contains 6 Results:

Snapshot showing official Aero Club witnesses waiting for Orville Wright’s takeoff, 1913 Dec. 31

 Item — Box: 20B, Folder: 7, 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 Dec. 31

Marjorie Stinson in a Wright Model B Flyer, 1914

 Item — Box: 20B, Folder: 8, 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: 1914

Chart providing general details of machines, including monoplanes and biplanes., 1910 Oct.

 Item — Box: 20B, Folder: 9, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the File:

Most images show the aircraft outside their hangars.

Dates: 1910 Oct.

Gas balloon with crew and spectators ready for ascension from a park in England., Undated

 Item — Box: 20B, Folder: 10, 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: Undated

Bergdoll’s restored Wright Model B Flyer being taxied by pilot Marshall Reid, 1933

 Item — Box: 20B, Folder: 11, 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: 1933

Right front view of the Lemp Flyer with Army soldiers and airmen as spectators., 1924

 Item — Box: 20B, Folder: 12, Item: 2
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