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Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from June 7, 1902 to December 11, 1902
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from June 7, 1902 to December 11, 1902
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from November 7, 1901 to April 29, 1902
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from September 2, 1901 to October 29, 1901
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from September 2, 1901 to October 29, 1901
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from September 2, 1901 to October 29, 1901
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from September 2, 1901 to October 29, 1901
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from September 2, 1901 to October 29, 1901
Aeroplane in flight - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Aeroplane in flight - 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.

Mars. Aeroplane, George Grantham Bain Collection

Mars. Aeroplane, George Grantham Bain Collection

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

H.C. Cooke in Curtis biplane - Public domain portrait photograph

H.C. Cooke in Curtis biplane - Public domain portrait photograph

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

Latham aeroplane, on flying field

Latham aeroplane, on flying field

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

Arbre in #3 Biplane at Reims - Public domain portrait photograph

Arbre in #3 Biplane at Reims - Public domain portrait photograph

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

[Bi-plane] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

[Bi-plane] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Meckler-Allen Aeroplane, George Grantham Bain Collection

Meckler-Allen Aeroplane, George Grantham Bain Collection

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

BLERIOT AIRPLANE C. MURVIN WOOD

BLERIOT AIRPLANE C. MURVIN WOOD

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

Richter; Miss Lagler, German Avt.

Richter; Miss Lagler, German Avt.

Photo possibly shows early aviator Joseph P. Richter with Miss Lagler (Bozena Laglerova). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Beatty, George Grantham Bain Collection

Beatty, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows the biplane of George W. Beatty (1887-1955) just above the ground at the Nassau Boulevard Aerodrome International Aviation Meet, Garden City, Long Island, New York which was held between September 2... More

NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN. CURTISS HYDROAEROPLANE OR FLYING BOAT EXHIBITED NEAR HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING. E. H. SMITH; REP. KAHN; REP. LIEB

NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN. CURTISS HYDROAEROPLANE OR FLYING BOA...

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

FLECHERE, GEORGES. LIEUT. FRENCH ARMY, AVIATOR. WITH S.P.A.D. BIPLANE FRENCH

FLECHERE, GEORGES. LIEUT. FRENCH ARMY, AVIATOR. WITH S.P.A.D. BIPLANE ...

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

Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from January 2, 1903 to August 26, 1904
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from January 2, 1903 to August 26, 1904
Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921

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]

[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

How to Learn to Fly [August Post, World’s Work, September 1910]

How to Learn to Fly [August Post, World’s Work, September 1910]

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

The Aeroplane of The Wright Brothers [Woodcraft- A Journal For All Wood workers, 1909]

The Aeroplane of The Wright Brothers [Woodcraft- A Journal For All Woo...

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

The Aeroplane of The Wright Brothers [Woodcraft- A Journal For All Wood workers, 1909]

The Aeroplane of The Wright Brothers [Woodcraft- A Journal For All Woo...

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

The Aeroplane, the Dirigible, the Camera [C.H. Claudy,The Photographic Times]

The Aeroplane, the Dirigible, the Camera [C.H. Claudy,The Photographic...

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

Subject File:  Legal Cases--Wright Co. v. Herring-Curtiss Co.--Miscellaneous Documents, 1909

Subject File: Legal Cases--Wright Co. v. Herring-Curtiss Co.--Miscell...

Picryl description: Public domain document page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers is a collection of documents related to the Wright brothers, two America... More

Aviation Meet at Oakwood Heights, S.I. [The Club Journal- Automobile Club of America, 25 October 1913]

Aviation Meet at Oakwood Heights, S.I. [The Club Journal- Automobile C...

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

Beinn Bhreagh Recorder by Alexander Graham Bell, from July 24, 1909 to October 19, 1909
Beinn Bhreagh Recorder by Alexander Graham Bell, from July 24, 1909 to October 19, 1909
Beinn Bhreagh Recorder by Alexander Graham Bell, from July 24, 1909 to October 19, 1909
Beinn Bhreagh Recorder by Alexander Graham Bell, from July 24, 1909 to October 19, 1909
Beinn Bhreagh Recorder by Alexander Graham Bell, from July 24, 1909 to October 19, 1909
Beinn Bhreagh Recorder by Alexander Graham Bell, from July 24, 1909 to October 19, 1909
Beinn Bhreagh Recorder by Alexander Graham Bell, from July 24, 1909 to October 19, 1909
Beinn Bhreagh Recorder by Alexander Graham Bell, from July 24, 1909 to October 19, 1909
Beinn Bhreagh Recorder by Alexander Graham Bell, from July 24, 1909 to October 19, 1909
Beinn Bhreagh Recorder by Alexander Graham Bell, from July 24, 1909 to October 19, 1909
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from June 7, 1902 to December 11, 1902
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from June 7, 1902 to December 11, 1902
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from June 7, 1902 to December 11, 1902
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from November 7, 1901 to April 29, 1902
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from November 7, 1901 to April 29, 1902
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from November 7, 1901 to April 29, 1902
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from September 2, 1901 to October 29, 1901
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from September 2, 1901 to October 29, 1901
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from September 2, 1901 to October 29, 1901
At Nice, dragging aeroplane of Rawlinson from the sea

At Nice, dragging aeroplane of Rawlinson from the sea

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

Curtiss-Herring aeroplane, on field

Curtiss-Herring aeroplane, on field

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

Glenn Curtiss, George Grantham Bain Collection

Glenn Curtiss, George Grantham Bain Collection

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

Cockburn in Farman Biplane - Public domain portrait photograph

Cockburn in Farman Biplane - Public domain portrait photograph

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

Aeroplane Bousson Borguis [driven by Paul Borguis]

Aeroplane Bousson Borguis [driven by Paul Borguis]

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

Frank Stanton, George Grantham Bain Collection

Frank Stanton, George Grantham Bain Collection

Full length, standing in front of biplane with dog (Lieut. Lindley), (3 - facing left - left side of face is most visible). Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Ba... More

Bleriot aeroplane, George Grantham Bain Collection

Bleriot aeroplane, George Grantham Bain Collection

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

[1903 machine, front view] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

[1903 machine, front view] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 55. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LO... More

Silver Dart - Aeroplane at Hammondsport

Silver Dart - Aeroplane at Hammondsport

No caption card. Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about t... More

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

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

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

The Wright airplane of 1909 at Ft. Myer, Virginia

The Wright airplane of 1909 at Ft. Myer, Virginia

Photoprint copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. 11748. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Eng... Aeroplane Co - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Eng... Aeroplane Co - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is available ... More

F.L. de Riemsdyk and Glenn Curtiss standing by aeroplane

F.L. de Riemsdyk and Glenn Curtiss standing by aeroplane

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

Army Aeroplane, San Antonio - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Army Aeroplane, San Antonio - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

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

[Arch Hoxsey and Gov. Charles S. Deneen in airplane]

[Arch Hoxsey and Gov. Charles S. Deneen in airplane]

J146577 or 78 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint copyrighted by E.L. Vermillion, Ill. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Airplanes 1910; Photog. I.; BI; Shelf. Sou... More

J. Stevenson - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

J. Stevenson - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Robert G.? Fowler, George Grantham Bain Collection

Robert G.? Fowler, George Grantham Bain Collection

3/4 lgth., seated in airplane, facing slightly right. Photo by Bain News Service. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

[Two scenes of Louis Paulhan flying Farman biplane - over Salt lake City fairgrounds, 1910; over Somerset House and Thames River, London, 1910 (in Daily Mail contest to fly between London and Manchester, April 1910)]

[Two scenes of Louis Paulhan flying Farman biplane - over Salt lake Ci...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item, with subsequent revisions. "9191 A.S." Ernest L. Jones Collection.

Wright Flying Boat - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Wright Flying Boat - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, flight, airplane, aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

San Antonio Aeroplane used for army messages

San Antonio Aeroplane used for army messages

Photograph shows a Wright Model "B" biplane which was rented to the U.S. Army in 1911 in San Antonio, Texas. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Con... More

P.M. Morgan, P.M.G. Hitchcock, & Ovington

P.M. Morgan, P.M.G. Hitchcock, & Ovington

Photo shows the first official airmail flight in the United States with pilot Earle Lewis Ovington (1879-1936) in a Bleriot XI airplane, Postmaster General Frank Harris Hitchcock (1867-1935) and Edward M. Morga... More

Lincoln Beachey, George Grantham Bain Collection

Lincoln Beachey, George Grantham Bain Collection

Flying biplane under Niagara River bridge. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Helene Dutrieu - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Helene Dutrieu - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows Helene Dutrieu (1877-1961), Belgian aviator, cyclist, hospital director and journalist. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

[Arrival of French pilot Marc Bonnier and mechanic Joseph Barnier in  a Nieuport airplane, the first aviators to fly into Jerusalem]

[Arrival of French pilot Marc Bonnier and mechanic Joseph Barnier in ...

Public domain photograph of 1920s Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Making plane wings, George Grantham Bain Collection

Making plane wings, George Grantham Bain Collection

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

Katherine Stinson with her biplane

Katherine Stinson with her biplane

Photo shows American aviator Katherine Stinson (1891-1977) in front of her Curtiss-Stinson Special biplane that she flew to raise funds for the Red Cross during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 201... More

ALLIED AIRCRAFT. DEMONSTRATION AT POLO GROUNDS. CAPRONI BIPLANE, ITALIAN

ALLIED AIRCRAFT. DEMONSTRATION AT POLO GROUNDS. CAPRONI BIPLANE, ITALI...

A black and white photo of a field with cows, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Ge... More

British aviators getting instructions

British aviators getting instructions

Photograph shows the the pilot and observer of a Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8 biplane (serial number B5106) of No. 59 Squadron receiving instructions from Major Charles Jospeh Mackay before taking off from the ... More

High school Victory Corps. Rudolph Angar, instructor aeronautics at Washington High School, Los Angeles, California, checks an airplane engine that two of his students put together. Future plane mechanics, the boys and girls of the class work with actual plane parts

High school Victory Corps. Rudolph Angar, instructor aeronautics at Wa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from January 2, 1903 to August 26, 1904
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from January 2, 1903 to August 26, 1904
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from January 2, 1903 to August 26, 1904
Photograph, June 20, 1908

Photograph, June 20, 1908

Alexander Graham Bell Papers. Picryl description: Public domain document related to trials and litigations, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Progress in flying machines,

Progress in flying machines,

This volume contains research that originally appeared in The Railroad and Engineering Journal between 1891 and 1893. In it, the distinguished French-born aviation pioneer Octave Chanute analyzed virtually ever... More

Johnstone High Flyer of the World, Killed by Fall of 500 Feet [New York American, 18 November 1910]

Johnstone High Flyer of the World, Killed by Fall of 500 Feet [New Yor...

Public domain scan of newspaper clippings, periodicals, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

1st Nat'l Aviation Meet, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, June 13-18, 1910

1st Nat'l Aviation Meet, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, June 13-18, 1910

J142597 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; C. F. Bretzman; 1910. Airplanes added from other negatives before printing. On front: "'Cirkut' photo by C. F. Bretzman, Indp'l's."

La Costruzione di un aeroplane Wright [Il Secolo…Rome, May 1909]

La Costruzione di un aeroplane Wright [Il Secolo…Rome, May 1909]

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

La Costruzione di un aeroplane Wright [Il Secolo…Rome, May 1909]

La Costruzione di un aeroplane Wright [Il Secolo…Rome, May 1909]

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

Aviation Meet at Oakwood Heights, S.I. [The Club Journal- Automobile Club of America, 25 October 1913]

Aviation Meet at Oakwood Heights, S.I. [The Club Journal- Automobile C...

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

Beinn Bhreagh Recorder by Alexander Graham Bell, from July 24, 1909 to October 19, 1909
Beinn Bhreagh Recorder by Alexander Graham Bell, from July 24, 1909 to October 19, 1909
Bulletins, from January 4, 1909 to April 12, 1909

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

Alexander Graham Bell Papers. Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from September 2, 1901 to October 29, 1901
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from September 2, 1901 to October 29, 1901
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from September 2, 1901 to October 29, 1901
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from September 2, 1901 to October 29, 1901
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from September 2, 1901 to October 29, 1901
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from September 2, 1901 to October 29, 1901
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from September 2, 1901 to October 29, 1901
Graham White's i.e., Claude Grahame-White's aeroplane

Graham White's i.e., Claude Grahame-White's aeroplane

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. Full name in title from Merriam-Webster's bi... More

Hamilton in Aeroplane, George Grantham Bain Collection

Hamilton in Aeroplane, George Grantham Bain Collection

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

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