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[Three-quarter left rear view of glider in flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina]
Summary
Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 115.
Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright.
Reference copy in LOT 11512.
Orville, accompanied by his brother Lorin, his nephew Horace, and his friend Alexander Ogilvie, of England, arrived for the purpose of conducting gliding experiments with a glider resembling the Wright 1911 powered machine but lacking its motor (Renstrom, p. 113).
Forms part of: Glass negatives from the Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright.
Tags
Date
01/01/1911
Contributors
Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912, photographer
Wright, Orville, 1871-1948, photographer
Location
Kitty Hawk (N.C.), 36.06472, -75.70583
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions.
