![[Start of the first flight of 1905, Orville Wright at controls of the machine, near the hangar at Huffman Prairie. The two figures in the center are probably Wilbur Wright and Charles E. Taylor. The catapult launching device appears for the first time in a photograph]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMjAvc3RhcnQtb2YtdGhlLWZpcnN0LWZsaWdodC1vZi0xOTA1LW9ydmlsbGUtd3JpZ2h0LWF0LWNvbnRyb2xzLW9mLXRoZS1tYWNoaW5lLWQwNDNiOS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/320/235/jpg "[Start of the first flight of 1905, Orville Wright at controls of the machine, near the hangar at Huffman Prairie. The two figures in the center are probably Wilbur Wright and Charles E. Taylor. The catapult launching device appears for the first time in a photograph]")
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[Start of the first flight of 1905, Orville Wright at controls of the machine, near the hangar at Huffman Prairie. The two figures in the center are probably Wilbur Wright and Charles E. Taylor. The catapult launching device appears for the first time in a photograph]
Summary
Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 59.
Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright.
Reference copy in LOT 11512.
Forms part of: Glass negatives from the Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright.
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Date
01/01/1905
Contributors
Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912, photographer
Wright, Orville, 1871-1948, photographer
Location
Dayton (Ohio), 39.75889, -84.19167
Source
Library of Congress
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