Pho. Photographic Collections

Stereo Card of the Wright B Flyer flying over Simms Station later Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio. The image bears the copyright of the Keystone View Company for 1910. The company entitled the image “Conquering the Air-Wright Brothers Airship Flying at Dayton, Ohio.”

Photographs of Richard Llewellyn Roger Atcherley and others, including scenes, planes, and people, at the 1932 Cleveland National Air Races. The collection also includes a photocopy of an article concerning the 1932 Cleveland Air races.

Color lithograph postcard that depicts an aerial view of Oakwood Extension, now part of Kettering, Ohio. It was published as an advertising piece for the Spaite-Wright Realty Company.

Cyanotype postcard depicting Glenn Curtiss preparing for a flight in an early Curtiss Pusher, circa 1910-1911.

Digital prints of broken magic lantern slides that can be found in MS-204, depicting World War I aviation technology. Some items from the collection may be viewed online as part of our digital exhibits.

This collection contains two photos of an airplane designed and built by Charles Snyder of Osborn (now part of Fairborn), Ohio, plus an article about Fairfield and Osborn (combined to form Fairborn).

This small collection consists of 46 mixed American and European postcards that depict the Wrights, their planes, and monuments dedicated to them.

This collection contains 24 photographs of local drive-in theaters that were taken during the early 1980s. Most of the drive-ins pictured have since been demolished. The photos were taken by Ritchie Thomas who donated them.

The collection consists of consists of nine halftone postcards in black and white, depicting Patterson and Wright Fields. The postcards appear to have been published as part of a series by the Wayne Paper Box and Printing Co., Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Collection consists of 1 Scrapbook, containing 42 black and white photos from Abteilung (Detachment) 212 in the German Air Force during World War I. Most of the photographs depicts daily life on base. There are some photos of German and Allied aircraft. There are pictures of Fokker Eindeckers, Rumpler C IV, German observation balloons, and a captured Handley Page 0/400. Title of scrapbook is in German, and there are not captions.