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Inventor of America's first flying machine attends International Civil Aeronautics Conference. Orville Wright, one of the famous Wright brothers who made the first flight in America 25 years ago, was given a hearty greeting by the delegates from all over the world when he arrived to attend the first session of the International Civil Aeronautics Conference in Washington today. In this picture Mr. Wright (right) is shaking hands with William F. Whiting, Secretary of Commerce
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Air Safety Conference. Washington, D.C. More than 200 representatives of the nation's airlines and technical experts from the U.S. Bureau of Air Commerce met at conference today to study recent air crashes with a view to preventing such accidents in the future. Gene Vidal, Director of the Bureau of Air, presided at the meeting which was held at the Department of Commerce. In the photograph, left to right: (seated) O.A. Patterson, President of United Airlines; E.E. Jett, Chief Engineer of Federal Communications; Sidney Shannon, Operations Manager Eastern Airlines; Eugene Vidal, Director of Bureau of Air Commerce; and Harland Hull, Chief Pilot of TWA
Inventor of America's first flying machine attends International Civil Aeronautics Conference. Orville Wright, one of the famous Wright brothers who made the first flight in America 25 years ago, was given a hearty greeting by the delegates from all over the world when he arrived to attend the first session of the International Civil Aeronautics Conference in Washington today. In this picture Mr. Wright (right) is shaking hands with William F. Whiting, Secretary of Commerce
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A group of men standing next to each other, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve.
On sleeve: Watch Your Credit Line.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Temp. note: Batch seven.
The Harris & Ewing, Inc. Collection of photographic negatives includes glass and film negatives taken by Harris & Ewing, Inc., which provide excellent coverage of Washington people, events, and architecture, during the period 1905-1945. Harris & Ewing, Inc., gave its collection of negatives to the Library in 1955. The Library retained about 50,000 news photographs and 20,000 studio portraits of notable people. Approximately 28,000 negatives have been processed and are available online. (About 42,000 negatives still need to be indexed.)
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Date
01/01/1928
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No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see Harris & Ewing Photographs - Rights and Restrictions Information http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/140_harr.html