Box 23A
Container
Contains 2 Results:
Orville and Wilbur Wright standing in the garden of the Bollée home, 1909
Item — Box: 23A, Folder: 1, Item: 22
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
Brochure containing two real photographs of a luncheon held at the Engineers Club, Dayton, 1944 Nov. 10
Item — Box: 23A, Folder: 5, Item: 22
Scope and Contents
At the luncheon, Orville Wright was presented with a certificate of honorary life membership in the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Edward A. Deeds also appears in both photographs.
Dates:
1944 Nov. 10
