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Tako ni noboru otoko - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows a man, hovering over nearby trees, apparently impaled on a string attached to a flying kite.

The philosopher & his kite / H.S. Sadd sc.

Print shows Benjamin Franklin and his son William flying a kite during an electrical storm.

Kites are flying. An acrostic by Archibald Scott. Air- Highland laddie. H. De Marsan, Publisher, 38 Chatham Street, N. Y

Public domain song - scan of American song sheet, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Tōto asakusa honganji], Katsushika Hokusai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the peak of the roof of the Hongan-ji Temple at Asakusa with a kite flying through the clouds and a view of Mount Fuji in the distance. Title from another copy, other descriptive information compile More

[Kōto suruga-cho mitsu miseryakuzu] - Ukiyo e print

Print shows roofers working on the roof of a building, with two kites flying in the background and a view of Mount Fuji in the distance. Title from online source, other descriptive information compiled by Nichi More

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell, February 28, 1897

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mr. Ellis, June 21, 1898

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mr. Ellis, June 15, 1898

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mr. Ellis, June 21, 1898

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mr. Ellis, June 6, 1898

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mr. Ellis, June 15, 1898

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mr. Ellis, June 23, 1898

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mr. Ellis, June 21, 1898

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mr. Ellis, June 23, 1898

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mr. Ellis, June 6, 1898

Notes by Alexander Graham Bell, August 30, 1899

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mr. Ellis, August 22, 1899

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mr. Ellis, September 4, 1899

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mr. Ellis, August 22, 1899

Notes by Alexander Graham Bell, August 30, 1899

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mr. Ellis, September 4, 1899

Franklin's experiment with the kite

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[Franklin's experiment with the kite]

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Franklin's experiment with the kite

Photograph of a painting copyrighted by the Franklin Foundation. Detroit Publishing Co. no. M 28051. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Left side view of glider flying as a kite, in level flight, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina]

Title from reference print and information in: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 48. Attributed to Wilbur and/or O More

Alexander Graham Bell papers - Sketches, undated

[Side view of glider flying as a kite near the ground, Wilbur at left and Orville at right, glider turned forward to right and tipped downward]

Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 48. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LO More

[1901 glider being flown as a kite, Wilbur at left side, Orville at right; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina]

Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 48. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy i More

[Side view of Dan Tate, left, and Wilbur, right, flying the 1902 glider as a kite]

Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 51. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LO More

Telegrams, from November 26, 1903 to November 27, 1903

Alexander Graham Bell Papers. Public domain scan of a telegram, telegraph correspondence, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Telegrams, from November 26, 1903 to November 27, 1903

Wireless telegraphy kite, Waldon Fawcett photo, Washington DC

2 men with trapezoidal kite; another man stands beside spool of wire. Photo copyrighted by Waldon Fawcett. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Notes by Alexander Graham Bell, December 7, 1907

British army war kite. Photo by Bain News Service collection

Photograph shows three photos, mounted together on card stock, of British soldiers with kite and parachute. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

HARGRAVE BOX KITE. AIRPLANE TARGET AT FORTRESS MONROE; MODIFIED HARGRAVE BOX KITE, INCORPORATING IMPROVEMENTS BY MARVIN, CLAYTON, AND FERGUSSON; USED BY U.S. WEATHER BUREAU FOR RAISING FORECASTING INSTRUMENTS

Picryl description: Public domain image of an early aircraft, balloon, airship, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Camp Custer, Michigan, photographed from kites, camera elevated 500 feet

J232007 U.S. Copyright Office Title transcribed from item. Copyright claimant's address: 425 So. Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. Copyright deposit, Kaufmann & Fabry Co., October 29, 1918 (DLC/PP-1918:45907). More in More

Boys flying a kite in front of the community center, FSA camp, Robstown, Tex.

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Boys flying a kite in front of community center, FSA ... camp, Robstown, Tex

11671-21. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add More

Boys flying a kite in front of the community center, FSA camp, Robstown, Tex

11671-21. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add More

Boys flying a kite in front of community center, FSA ... camp, Robstown, Tex.

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Pupil of Banneker Junior High School with a kite which he has made

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Toni Frissell's daughter Sidney as "The Wind" in A Child's Garden of Verses, Southhampton, Long Island

Photograph shows Toni Frissell's daughter, Sidney Bacon (Frissell) Stafford running on a beach with a kite, Southampton, Long Island. Title from caption in Photographs, 1933-1967 / Toni Frissell, p. vi. Photogr More

Portrait photo of [Boy playing with kite, Sikkim]

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Alexander Graham Bell papers - Sketches, undated

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mr. Ellis, undated

Journal by Mabel Hubbard Bell, from January 1894 to December 29, 1905

Journal by Mabel Hubbard Bell, from 1896 to 1923

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Alexander Melville Bell, September 11, 1898

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Notes by Alexander Graham Bell, September 12, 1898

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mr. Ellis, June 20, 1898

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, June 12, 1898

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Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, May 14, 1898

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Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, June 16, 1898

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Letter from Alexander Graham Bell, June 16, 1898

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, May 9, 1899

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Letter from Samuel P. Langley to Alexander Graham Bell, April 18, 1899

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, November 7, 1901

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Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from July 19, 1901 to August 31, 1901

Alexander Graham Bell Papers. Public domain photograph of laboratory, science, research, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from November 7, 1901 to April 29, 1902

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, October 25, 1901

Bulletin by Alexander Graham Bell, July 22, 1901

Notes by Alexander Graham Bell, October 26, 1901

Notes by Alexander Graham Bell, October 16, 1901

Letter from Mabel Hubbard Bell to Alexander Graham Bell, from October 21, 1901 to October 22, 1901

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Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from September 2, 1901 to October 29, 1901

Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from June 7, 1902 to December 11, 1902

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Samuel P. Langley, February 15, 1902

Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from January 2, 1903 to August 26, 1904

Letter from Mauro, Cameron & Lewis to Alexander Graham Bell, June 1, 1903

Specification by Alexander Graham Bell, September 20, 1904

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, November 13, 1904

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Notebook by Alexander Graham Bell and W. F. Bedwin, from June 9, 1906 to November 8, 1907

Alexander Graham Bell Papers. Public domain photograph of laboratory, science, research, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Notes by Alexander Graham Bell, December 4, 1907

Article by Mabel Hubbard Bell, December 11, 1907

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Notes by Alexander Graham Bell, December 9, 1907

Notes by Alexander Graham Bell, December 19, 1907

[Alexander Graham Bell (right) and his assistants observing the progress of one of his tetrahedral kites]

Another copy filed in LOT 11533-10-27, no. 7. Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family (Library of Congress). Published in: A Century of photographs, 18 More

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, May 12, 1908

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Letter from Alexander Graham Bell, March 11, 1908

Bulletins, from July 13, 1908 to September 28, 1908

Alexander Graham Bell Papers. Public domain photograph of laboratory, science, research, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908

Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from July 2, 1909 to November 24, 1909

Beinn Bhreagh Recorder by Alexander Graham Bell, from July 24, 1909 to October 19, 1909

5 Perkins kites holding up a man at the Harvard Aviation Field, Sept. 1910"

Photograph shows man in air attached to man-lifting kites at Harvard Aviation Field, Quincy, Massachusetts; kites were developed by Samuel F. Perkins for military reconnaissance. No. 1607AS. Forms part of Erne More