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Box 21A

 Container

Contains 4 Results:

Faked composite image showing a Wright Flyer in flight over a huge crowd in Dayton, Ohio., 1909

 Item — Box: 21A, Folder: 1, Item: 13
Scope and Contents

The original crowd image actually dates from the Spanish-American War.

Dates: 1909

Photo postcard showing view down Hawthorn Street., 1909

 Item — Box: 21A, Folder: 2, Item: 13
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: 1909

James Arnold rigging the rudder of a Wright Flyer., 1911

 Item — Box: 21A, Folder: 3, Item: 13
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

Charles E. Taylor checking an engine part of the half scale 1903 motor with a micrometer., Undated

 Item — Box: 21A, Folder: 4, Item: 13
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