early aircraft

Germany -- Lug Biplane -- Schneider type (school machine)

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Vedrines and his war plane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Jules Charles Toussaint Védrines, an early French aviator. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Atwood rising - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows airplane of aviator Harry Nelson Atwood (1884-1967). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Signal Corps Aviation School, Augusta From Aeroplane [4]

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British Army Monoplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Blanche Scott - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows American aviator Blanche Stuart Scott (1885-1970). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

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

Calbraith Rodgers, George Grantham Bain Collection

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

[Left rear view of glider at a high altitude; Kitty Hawk, North Caroli...

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 L... More

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.

[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.

Curtiss Farnum biplane, aviation field, Wenatchee, Washington, 3 June ...

Photograph copyrighted by T. Gagnon. No. 374. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Wash. Wentachee 1911; Photog. I.; Airplanes 1911; BI; Shelf. Cu... More

Sopwith & Mrs. Chudoba, woman passenger

Photo shows aviator Thomas Sopwith (1888-1989) in an airplane. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

C.P. Henderson, J.J. Cole, Bob Fowler

Photograph shows C.P. Henderson (Cole Motor Car Company), Joseph Jarret Cole (Cole Motor Car Company) and aviator Robert Grant "Bob" Fowler with a Wright Model B Flyer called the "Cole Flyer," preparing for the... More

First airship crossing Continental Divide, Sept. 30, 11. Cromwell Dixo...

Composite of four photographs showing the airplane starting for Helena, Montana; landing at Blossberg, Montana; ready for return to Helena; and after landing at Blossberg. Copyright by C & K.

Farman after winning Deutsch prize

Henri Farman, full-length portrait, standing at wheel of airplane, facing left. George Grantham Bain Collection.

Lieut. Scott's Aero Bomb - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo probably shows bomb sighting and dropping device designed by Lieutenant Riley E. Scott in 1911. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

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

Photograph shows John J. Meckler and C.A. Allen standing in front of a biplane intended for transatlantic flight which they built in 1912. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

CURTISS AIRPLANE. McCURDY, J.A.D., AVIATOR

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Turkish airplane in Jerusalem. - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

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Congressman O.D. Bleakley arriving in Wash., D.C., in an aeroplane, No...

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

A group of men standing around a small airplane. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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Wright Machine - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Santa Claus in aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Hydro-Aeroplane or Flying Boat for the National Aero Coast Patrol

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[Charles Lindbergh, adjusting parachute before testing Sergeant Bell's...

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Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from January 2, 1903 to August 26, 1...

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

[Wreckage of a German Albatross D. III fighter biplane]

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Flying / J.W. Lowry, sculpt. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Technical illustration shows Besnier's 1678 design for a flying machine using arm and leg power, two views of Jakob Degen's man-powered flying machine, and two views after designs published in Thomas Walker's "... More

[Two women in automobile, with two men standing alongside, another aut...

10912 (Class K) U.S. Copyright Office. Inscribed in ink on lower right: © June 6, 1910 Cl. K. 10912. Includes print-registration marks and color bar indicating that at least 10 stones were used. Color bar incl... More

[First flight, 120 feet in 12 seconds, 10:35 a.m.; Kitty Hawk, North C...

Photograph shows the first powered, controlled, sustained flight. Orville Wright at the controls of the machine, lying prone on the lower wing with hips in the cradle which operated the wing-warping mechanism. ... More

[Houdini and the magic of flight]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a biplane aircraft, pilot, aviator, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American magician and escapologist, born in Budapest in 1874... More

Wright Aeroplane and Wireless Communication [Frank L. Perry, Western E...

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

Grande semaine d'aviation de la Champagne: Reims de 22 au 29 août 1909...

Advertising poster for an air show in Reims, France, showing a woman waving to a man piloting a biplane as other aircraft including monoplanes, biplanes, and balloons fly above the Notre Dame de Reims cathedral.

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

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...

Eshault-Pelterie aeroplane, in flight

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

Paulhan and Hamilton aeroplanes in flight, Los Angeles

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

Alexander Graham Bell papers - Photograph, undated

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Eugene Ely, George Grantham Bain Collection

H/s (2- facing left - left side of face is most visible). Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Rohlfs & his Curtiss "Wasp" - 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.

NC-4 (Seaplane) - 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.

Latham aeroplane, on flying field

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Intern'l School of Aeronautics, N.Y.

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Delagrange in his 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.

C.W. Williams, George Grantham Bain Collection

Aviator; 4 photos on 1 neg - 4 photos of his plane (2 with him in it?). Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). WWW (-1973); Am... More

[1903 machine on the launching track at Big Kill Devil Hill, prior to ...

Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 56. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy i... More

[Wilbur and Orville Wright with their second powered machine; Huffman ...

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[Side view of flight 45, Orville flying to the right close to the grou...

Title from: 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 LO... More

[Front view of flight 41, Orville flying to the left at a height of ab...

Title from: 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 LO... More

O. Wright flying [airplane] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

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

The JUNE BUG which won Scientific American trophy, July 4, 1908, with ...

Two photos showing plane with A.M. Herring, Chas. M. Manly, A.R. Hawley, J.A.D. McCuroy & Tom Baldwin.

Bleriot, in flight over field - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

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WRIGHT FLIGHTS, FORT MYER, Virginia, JULY 1909. FIRST ARMY FLIGHTS

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Dr. William Greene at pilot wheel of 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

Eugène Lefebvre, George Grantham Bain Collection

Aloft, in Wright airplane at Reims, France, Sept. 1909. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

[The Silver Dart, one of the Aerial Experiment Association's early air...

In album: "Photographs, Laboratory Copy 1908." Penned at lower left of photographic print: "Copyright 09 Burner[?]." Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Fa... More

John Moisant, George Grantham Bain Collection

Full, standing by plane. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Copyright by Cole.

Lena Pearl Neff Curtiss, wife of Glenn Hammond Curtiss

3/4 lgth., seated in biplane, facing slightly left. J145344 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Shelf.

Heinrich - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Albert S. Heinrich (1889-1974), an American aviator who flew the first American monoplane, probably on day of a race above the Hudson River, New York on July 4, 1914. (Source: Flickr Commons pr... More

[Arch Hoxsey at controls, with Gov. Charles Samuel Deneen, John McCreb...

Copyright by F.L. Vermillion, Springfield, Ill. Public domain photograph of aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Curtiss flying boats & hydraeoplane

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[Aviator] - 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.

Curtiss boat sent to England - 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.

"Caudron" biplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows a Caudron G-2 biplane. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

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

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"Deperdussin" monoplane - 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.

W.R. Kimball & aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows Wilbur R. Kimball (d. 1940), aviation pioneer, inventor, airplane builder and pilot who was also the Secretary of the Aeronautic Society of New York. Photograph was taken at the Nassau Boulevard Ae... More

SEAPLANE. DEMONSTRATION - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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German -- aeroplane from Gotha Wagon factory

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

Curtiss Flying Boats - 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.

Mathieu - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Cal Rodgers, George Grantham Bain Collection

Alighting from his airplane at the finish of his epochal transcontinental flight in "Vin Fiz". Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Con... More

[Glider being prepared for flight by Orville and assistants; a number ...

Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 114. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy ... More

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

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 L... More

Alfred Stieglitz - The Aeroplane (1910)

Print shows biplane in flight. Illus. in: Camera Work, no. 36, October 1911, plate VII. Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art promoter. He was born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1864 and di... More

PECK, PAUL. COMMERCIAL AVIATOR. IN GYRO TYPE PLANE SPONSORED BY BERLIN...

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

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

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AVIATION, ARMY. COLLEGE PARK AVIATION FIELD, 2ND SEASON. WRIGHT BIPLAN...

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

Michigan Avenue facing Grant Park, Chicago

Postcard shows panoramic city view of Chicago with Grant Park in the foreground. Airplanes fly overhead. J176236 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1912 by Max Rigot, Chicago. Copyright and published by Max Rig... More

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

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

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German aviator receiving orders

Photograph shows a German pilot in an airplane on the ground with an officer (?) handing him a paper, during World War I.

German air-plane displayed to the crowd at Salonika

Filed in: Greece General. No. 3824. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

New Wright Military Aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

Photograph shows the Model H flying at Simms Station near Dayton, Ohio, 1914. (Source: Air Force Historical Research Agency, 2012 and Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Carlstrom - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows aviator Victor Carlstrom in a Curtiss Model R biplane, possibly arriving at Governor's Island, New York City on Nov. 3, 1916. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

CURTISS AIRPLANE TESTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS; TWIN ENGINE BIPLANE, POTOMA...

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President Wilson marching in parade in honor of returned soldiers at 1...

Dirigible and biplane overhead; both superimposed? Photo copyrighted by W.C. Cox. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Parachute jumping - 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.

Path through what is now, as it was in 1904, mostly a pasture at the H...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright had already flown their Wright Flyer III, the world's first practical heavier-than-air plane, for 5... More

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

[Two women in automobile, with two men standing alongside, another aut...

10912 (Class K) U.S. Copyright Office. Inscribed in ink on lower right: © June 6, 1910 Cl. K. 10912. Includes print-registration marks and color bar indicating that at least 10 stones were used. Color bar incl... More

[Pages 1 and 2 of The Evening Sun, 29 September 1909] (includes Libert...

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

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.

Roosevelt and Hoxsey - Presidence of Theodore Roosevelt

Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt and Archibald Hoxsey in a biplane preparing for flight on October 11, 1910, from Kinloch Field, St. Louis, Missouri. Copyright Cole & Co. 1910. No. 52.

Wright Aeroplane and Wireless Communication [Frank L. Perry, Western E...

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