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The aerial steam carriage - Drawing. Public domain image.

Pictorial lettersheet shows British inventor William Samuel Henson's proposed steam powered flying machine in an imaginary flight over the Thames River, London, 1843. Attempts to fly a model of the aerial steam... More

[Ariel, the first carriage of the Aerial Transit Company] / W. Walton ...

Print showing a winged boat, or "carriage," flying over the Nile river, with pyramids in the background. Inscription lower right: Restrike. Bella C. Landauer collection. Exhibited: "The Dream of Flight" : Amer... More

Henri Salvet, George Grantham Bain Collection

Aviator; full length, standing in front of airplane, (5 - facing front). Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Websters; Amer... More

Engine of Bleriot machine - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hoxsey flying - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cyril's aero sled - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Left side view of glider flying as a kite, in level flight, Kitty Haw...

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

Dubonnet over Paris - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Latham - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mr. and Mrs. Bleriot, aeroplane, crowd, on field, Dover

A group of people standing next to an airplane. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bleriot - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Wilbur Wright in prone position on glider just after landing, its ski...

Title based on reference print and information in: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 50. Attributed to Wilbur and/... More

[Rear view of Wilbur making a right turn in glide from No. 2 Hill, rig...

Note on reference print: See also Bain negative (LC-B2-83-4) and file print in lot 10965. Title based on reference print and information in: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / A... More

[Side view of Dan Tate, left, and Wilbur, right, flying the 1902 glide...

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

[Flight 30: machine close to the ground, Wilbur piloting, covering a d...

Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 58. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy i... More

[Left front view of flight 46, Orville turning to the left, in the las...

Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 60. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy i... More

Brindejonc des Moulinais - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows airplane of French aviator Marcel-Georges Brindejonc des Moulinais (1892-1916). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Wilbur Wright examining canoe attachment to aeroplane before 1st fligh...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. LOT subdivision subject: Orville and Wilbur Wright aviation activities - Wilbur's flights over New York harbor, 1909. George Grantham Bain Collection (... More

Bleriot aeroplane, on ground - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Aeroplane on HIBERNIA (Brit.) - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Miller, Miss Bernetta. Moissant Aviatrix, in Bleriot plane]

An old photo of a woman in a plane. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Breguet biplane, type 1910, flying over a town, possibly in Morocco]

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Murphy -- Police Monoplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Charles Minthorn Murphy (1870-1950) also known as "Mile-a-Minute" Murphy, a cyclist and policeman who proposed the idea of chasing criminals in airplanes. Murphy is seated in a monoplane design... More

Kantner at Start - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows aviator Harold Dewolf Kantner (1886-1973), the winner of a race above the Hudson River, New York on July 4, 1914. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 and New York Times, July 5, 1914)

Frank Coffin's Hydro-Aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Bert Beavers in his monoplane, June 26, 1910

Photo copyrighted by Morgan of Scranton. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; BI; Airplanes 1910; Shelf.

Coffin's Hydro-Aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

J.H. Kouns' aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tom Sopwith - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows English aviator Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith (1888-1989) in the Howard Wright biplane. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Cecil Peoli - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows early aviator Cecil Peoli (d. 1915), standing by an airplane. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

[Mikhail Effimov, Russian aviator, full-length portrait, seated on air...

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph of aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Three-quarter left rear view of glider in flight at Kitty Hawk, North...

Public domain photograph of aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Glider at Kitty Hawk] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Title based on reference print. 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.

Lieut. W. Capehart - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photographs shows Navy pilot Wadleigh Capehart (1883-1952). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

J.J. Cole; Bob Fowler; & W.F. Grundy

Photograph shows Joseph Jarret Cole (Cole Motor Car Company) and Robert Grant "Bob" Fowler who are sitting in a Wright Model B Flyer called the "Cole Flyer", preparing for the Hearst Transcontinental Flight Der... More

Portrait photo of Calbreath [i.e. Calbraith] Rodgers

Aloft in plane; large crowd in foreground. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

WRIGHT BROTHERS AIRPLANE, ETC. HARRY ATWOOD

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

JANNUS, ANTHONY. FLIGHTS AND TESTS OF REX SMITH PLANE FLOWN BY JANNUS....

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Charles K. Hamilton, in biplane, racing an auto on Galveston beach]

Photo copyrighted by H.H. Morris. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

BEACHEY, LINCOLN. ACROBATIC AND STUNT FLYER. OVER CAPITOL IN SPECIALLY...

Public domain photograph of official photograph, building on the background, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

War exhibit -- N.Y., 61415 - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows a Curtiss biplane at an exhibit by the National Security League which was part of the "Peace and Preparation Conference" held at the Hotel Astor in New York City in June 1915. (Source: Flickr C... More

Gigli & wife -- D'E Curtiss i.e. De Curtis & wife

Photograph shows Benjamin Gigli (1890-1957), an Italian tenor opera singer with his wife, Costanza Cerron and composer Ernesto de Curtis (1875-1937) in Venice, Italy. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Tit... More

War exhibit -- N.Y, George Grantham Bain Collection

NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN.: CURTISS HYDROAEROPLANE OR FLYING BO...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lining aeroplane airplane bodies, College Point

Photograph shows workers lining airplane bodies at the Lowe, Willard & Fowler Engineering Company, College Point, Queens, New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title and date from data provided ... More

NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN. CURTISS BIPLANE 2 ENGINES, WITH FLOA...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Y" aeronautic exhibit, Apr. 1, [19]44

Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

[Airplane, just after crash, with tail in air, El Paso, Texas]

J152370 U.S. Copyright Office. No copyright renewal. No. 90. Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

City Hall Park panorama, Panoramic Photograph

Copyright deposit; Irving Underhill. Copyright claimant's address: New York. No. M-48. This image is a copy photograph of item no. 8 in this LOT. Airplanes in sky and tall building at right spliced into negative.

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 July 13, 1908 to September 28, 1908

Alexander Graham Bell Papers. Public domain scan of a technical diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Bulletins, from January 4, 1909 to April 12, 1909

Alexander Graham Bell Papers. Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl ... More

Bulletins, from January 4, 1909 to April 12, 1909

Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of a ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Tending to pilot Orville Wright or passenger Lieutenant Thomas E. Sel...

No. 114875. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Delagrance and his aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

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

Planes in flight aviation meet, Belmont, N.Y.

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

Moissant flying - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Monoplane Hanriot - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

[1901 glider being flown as a kite, Wilbur at left side, Orville at ri...

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

[Gliding; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina]

Title from reference print. 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.

[Distant view of the Wright airplane just after landing, taken from th...

[Long-range view of machine on launching track, showing hangar nearby ...

Langley's steam model airplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

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

LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT. SECRETARY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE. EXPERIMENT...

A black and white photo of an old airplane, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Gene... More

G.H. Curtiss winning Scientific American Trophy with aeroplane "June B...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Army Air Service "1360 A.S." Copyright by H.M. Benner. Ernest L. Jones Collection. Caption card tracings: NY H-; Aviation 1908; Airplanes ... More

Wright's Start - Sept. 29, 1909

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. LOT subdivision subject: Orville and Wilbur Wright aviation activities - Wright's flights over New York harbor, 1909. George Grantham Bain Collection (... More

Curtiss-Herring aeroplane, in fligh over field

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Wright aeroplane at Fort Myer, Virginia

Postcard showing Orville Wright flying biplane, Fort Myer, Va. 131162 U.S. Copyright Office. "Copyright 1909, G.M.C." below photo. Copyright registration records show G.M. Cramer Co., in Washington, D.C.

Three quarter front view (left) of Miss [E.L.] Todd in her aeroplane

J132201 U.S. Copyright Office Another copy may be in SSF - AIRPLANES 1909. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[Louis Blériot at the wheel of his monoplane, with Alfred LeBlanc, Jul...

[Starting motor for Louis Blériot's cross-channel flight]

George Grantham Bain Collection. No. 850-2. Public domain photograph of aircraft engine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Frank McGill, George Hodgson, Frank Burnside, Philip Fisher, Hugh Veck...

Photograph shows Canadian Royal Naval Air Service aviators Frank McGill (1894-1980), Frank Herbert Burnside (1888-1935), Hugh Peck and George Ritchie Hodgson (1893-1983). (Source: Flickr Commons project)

Propeller of Sikorsky Plane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

Photo shows propeller of an airplane designed by Russian-American aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky (1889-1972).(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

Taube Memorial, Gotha - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cemetery, memorial, monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Meckler-Allen Aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of ship, people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jesse Seligman - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

John Moisant, George Grantham Bain Collection

In airplane. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Copyright by Cole & Co.

Harriman Hydroaeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows hydroplane designed by Frank Herbert "Bert" Harriman, an early aviation pioneer. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

Moissant Machine wrecked - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Mrs. Glenn Curtiss at the controls of an airplane]

J146867 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by George Grantham Bain. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Curtiss Flying Boat of Marshall E. Reid

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Three scenes of Harry Houdini as aviator; close-up in Voisin biplane ...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item, with subsequent revisions. "9383 A.S." Ernest L. Jones Collection. Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American magician and escapologist, born in ... More

[Close-up view of airplane, including the pilot and passenger seats]

Title based on reference print. 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.

Portrait photo of Harriet Quimby - Bleriot airplane

Quimby in her Bleriot monoplane. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

WRIGHT BROTHERS AIRPLANE, ETC. HARRY ATWOOD

A black and white photo of a man in a suit and hat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

ELLYSON, THEODORE C. LIEUT. U.S.N. TESTING SEAPLANE ON POTOMAC

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lieut. Porte - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows British aviator Lieutenant Commander John Cyril Porte (1884-1919), who was a flying boat pioneer associated with the World War I Seaplane Experimental Station at Felixstowe, England. (Source: Flickr... More

Harriet Quimby in cockpit of plane

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Moulin, portrait, George Grantham Bain Collection

Full length, seated on a bicycle with wings, at an aviette contest at Issy le Moulineaux, France; (4 - facing left - left side of face is most visible). Title and other information transcribed from caption card... More

JANNUS, ANTHONY. FLIGHTS AND TESTS OF REX SMITH PLANE FLOWN BY JANNUS....

A group of people sitting on top of an airplane. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vedrine[s] wins international cup

Photo shows French aviator Jules Vedrines turning the pylon in the James Gordon Bennett Cup Race, Chicago, Illinois.

C.M. Wood over Polo Field - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows airplane of aviator Clyde Murvin Wood (b. 1885?-1967) flying over the international polo tournament at Meadowbrook, Long Island, in June 1913. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

TR's sons' regiments during war, 1917-1918 [1] /

Soldiers walk in formation on a road accompanied by several mounted men. Because of the soldiers' heavy clothing, it must be winter. This group may be the 26th Infantry, Theodore and Archibald Roosevelt's regim... More

Wright Machine - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National P... More

Captured German plane during World War I

Photograph shows an empty airplane surrounded by high walls and fence with people looking over. Copyrighted 1919 by E. McConnell.

Thomas R. Shipp (Aeroplane) Businessman

Photograph shows Thomas R. Shipp and other guests with airplane from Cleveland that delivered ice cream for National Ice Cream Day.

First airplane to land in Grand Canyon. Aug. 8, 1922, R. V. Thomas, Pi...

Photograph shows R. V. Thomas and E. L. Kolb (holding camera), posing next to their plane in the Grand Canyon.

Lt. Com. Noel Davis -- Lt. S.H. Wooster

Photograph shows aviators Noel Guy Davis (1891-1927) and Stanton Hall Wooster (1895-1927), prior to perishing in a test flight before their attempt to fly across the Atlantic Ocean on April 26, 1927. (Source: F... More

L'aeroplane Wright [Omnia, Revue Pratique de Locomotion, 24 October 19...

The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers is a collection of documents related to the Wright brothers, two American inventors who are credited with building and flying the first successful powered airplane. The coll... More

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