Box 17A
Container
Contains 128 Results:
Wilbur Wright in the basket of Léon Bollée's hydrogen balloon Au Petit Bonheur at Le Mans, 1908 July 26
Item — Box: 17A, Folder: 4, Item: 10
Scope and Contents
Wilbur made this ascension with Rene Pellier and Leon Carre. Cabinet card photograph by Emile Viot, Le Mans.
Dates:
1908 July 26
Wilbur Wright walking on a street in Le Mans, 1908
Item — Box: 17A, Folder: 4, Item: 11
Scope and Contents
An unknown man walks at his right.
Dates:
1908
Wilbur Wright smiling before a photographer at Les Hunaudières near Le Mans, 1908 Aug.
Item — Box: 17A, Folder: 4, Item: 12
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Wilbur Wright traveled to Le Mans, France, in May 1908. He spent June and July assembling a 1907 model Wright Flyer which had been shipped to France the previous year. This Flyer was based on the design of the modified 1905 Wright Flyer and was equipped with two seats and a stick to control wing warping, instead of the old hip cradle. This design subsequently became known as the Wright Model A. Wilbur was offered space to work in the automobile factory of Léon Bollée. On August...
Dates:
1908 Aug.
Lithographic postcard showing Wilbur Wright (inset) and his Wright 1907 Flyer in flight, probably at Les Hunaudières, 1908
Item — Box: 17A, Folder: 4, Item: 13
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Wilbur Wright traveled to Le Mans, France, in May 1908. He spent June and July assembling a 1907 model Wright Flyer which had been shipped to France the previous year. This Flyer was based on the design of the modified 1905 Wright Flyer and was equipped with two seats and a stick to control wing warping, instead of the old hip cradle. This design subsequently became known as the Wright Model A. Wilbur was offered space to work in the automobile factory of Léon Bollée. On August...
Dates:
1908
Lithographic postcard showing the dowager Queen of Italy, Margherita di Savoia, congratulating Wilbur Wright on his flying at Camp d'Auvours., 1908
Item — Box: 17A, Folder: 4, Item: 14
Scope and Contents
This is number 10 in photographer J. Bouveret's series "L'Aviation en 1908".
Dates:
1908
Postcard of Léon Bollée, Hart O. Berg, a passenger, and Wilbur Wright preparing for a flight at Camp d'Auvours near Le Mans, 1908
Item — Box: 17A, Folder: 4, Item: 15
Scope and Contents
Number 6 in J. Bouveret's series "L'Aviation en 1908." Includes a note stating that the postcard was found in a desk in a house in St. Germain by an American colonel in 1945 and sent to Orville Wright in 1946.
Dates:
1908
An original watercolor Christmas card presumably sent to Wilbur Wright by the artist, Sophie Grisez, showing the Wright 1907 Flyer in flight and a pajama clad person running on the ground., Undated
Item — Box: 17A, Folder: 4, Item: 16
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Wilbur Wright traveled to Le Mans, France, in May 1908. He spent June and July assembling a 1907 model Wright Flyer which had been shipped to France the previous year. This Flyer was based on the design of the modified 1905 Wright Flyer and was equipped with two seats and a stick to control wing warping, instead of the old hip cradle. This design subsequently became known as the Wright Model A. Wilbur was offered space to work in the automobile factory of Léon Bollée. On August...
Dates:
Undated
L’Aero-cap Chapeau Extra Léger. A photograph of a caricature of Wilbur in flight suspended over the town of Le Mans by four bowler hats., Undated
Item — Box: 17A, Folder: 4, Item: 17
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Wilbur Wright traveled to Le Mans, France, in May 1908. He spent June and July assembling a 1907 model Wright Flyer which had been shipped to France the previous year. This Flyer was based on the design of the modified 1905 Wright Flyer and was equipped with two seats and a stick to control wing warping, instead of the old hip cradle. This design subsequently became known as the Wright Model A. Wilbur was offered space to work in the automobile factory of Léon Bollée. On August...
Dates:
Undated
An original watercolor painting in blue on a postcard of Wilbur Wright flying, perhaps at night., 1908
Item — Box: 17A, Folder: 4, Item: 18
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Wilbur Wright traveled to Le Mans, France, in May 1908. He spent June and July assembling a 1907 model Wright Flyer which had been shipped to France the previous year. This Flyer was based on the design of the modified 1905 Wright Flyer and was equipped with two seats and a stick to control wing warping, instead of the old hip cradle. This design subsequently became known as the Wright Model A. Wilbur was offered space to work in the automobile factory of Léon Bollée. On August...
Dates:
1908
Comic postcard depicting two well dressed, anthropomorphic dogs flying in a Wright 1907 Flyer over two dogs on the ground., Undated
Item — Box: 17A, Folder: 4, Item: 19
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Wilbur Wright traveled to Le Mans, France, in May 1908. He spent June and July assembling a 1907 model Wright Flyer which had been shipped to France the previous year. This Flyer was based on the design of the modified 1905 Wright Flyer and was equipped with two seats and a stick to control wing warping, instead of the old hip cradle. This design subsequently became known as the Wright Model A. Wilbur was offered space to work in the automobile factory of Léon Bollée. On August...
Dates:
Undated
