Wilbur Collection (page 4)

Wilbur Wright working in the bicycle shop. Date 1897

1903 machine, front view. Date 1903

Flight 23: front view of the machine in flight to the right, Orville at the controls, making two complete circles of the field at Huffman Prairie in 2 minutes and 45 seconds; Dayton, Ohio

Side view from below of Orville soaring in level flight, spectators looking up at glider; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1911 Oct

Orville Wright, Major John F. Curry, and Colonel Charles Lindbergh, who came to pay Orville a personal call at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. June 22, 1927. Date 1927 June 22

The Wright brothers camp near Kitty Hawk, taken from the north, two groups of trees to the left, side view of their tent to the right. Date 1900

Tom Tate, son of Captain Tates half-brother Daniel Tate, posing with a drum fish in front of 1900 Wright glider. Date 1900

Series of flights from May through July, just after the opening of the Wright Flying School, probably Orville acting as instructor; Simms Station, Dayton, Ohio. Date 1910

Right front view from below of flight 46, Orville turning to the right; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio. Date 1905 Oct. 4

Left view of Wilbur gliding, Kitty Hawk Lifesaving Station and Weather Bureau buildings in distance; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1902 Oct. 10

Launching track on Big Hill, and north slope of Kill Devil Hill; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1903 Dec. 14

Orville at left wing end of upended glider, bottom view; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1901

Left rear view of glider at a low altitude, showing the fixed vertical fin attached to a front strut; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1911

Orville Wright and Edwin H. Sines, neighbor and boyhood friend, filing frames in the back of the Wright bicycle shop. Date 1897

Long-range view of the Wright brothers camp and Kitty Hawk Bay. Date 1908

Distant view of Bishop Milton Wright during his first ride in an airplane, when Orville attained an altitude of 350 feet at Simms Station, Dayton, Ohio. Date 1910

Underside view of the Wright brothers reconstructed 1903 motor. Date 1928 Jan. 10

Distant view of the Wright brothers camp at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1901

View of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, photographed by the Wright brothers in the vicinity of their 1900 camp, where they conducted their first gliding experiments in October. Date 1900

View from the top of Kill Devil Hill; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1901

Close-up view of airplane, including the pilot and passenger seats. Date 1911

Wilbur Wright in prone position on glider just after landing, its skid marks visible behind it and, in the foreground, skid marks from a previous landing; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1901

A glide with the double-rudder machine moving to the left, north slope of Big Kill Devil Hill. Date 1902 Oct. 2

Side view of Wilbur Wright piloting a glider in level flight almost overhead, moving to left, showing bottom wing and elevator. Date 1901

1901 glider soaring, photograph from an out of focus, water-damaged negative. Original negative is blurred. Date 1901

Rear view of Wilbur making a right turn in glide from No. 2 Hill, right wing tipped close to the ground. Note on reference print: See also Bain negative (LC-B2-83-4) and file print in lot 10965

Large crowd of spectators gathered at the edge of a field at Simms Station, Dayton, Ohio, where a series of flights were conducted from May through July

First flight, 120 feet in 12 seconds, 10: 35 a. m. ; Kitty Hawk
First flight, 120 feet in 12 seconds, 10:35 a.m.; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Photograph shows the first powered, controlled, sustained flight

View of Kitty Hawk from the camp building. Date 1911

Flight 85: Orville in flight over treetops, covering a distance of approximately 1, 760 feet in 40 1/5 seconds; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio. Date 1904 Nov. 16

Damaged machine to the right of the launching track at the end of flight 31, piloted by Orville. The tall, white-shirted man in the foreground may be Charles E

The remodeled 1905 Wright machine, altered to allow the operator to assume a sitting position and to provide a seat for a passenger, on the launching track at Kill Devil Hills

Flight 30: machine close to the ground, Wilbur piloting, covering a distance of 784 feet in 22 3/4 seconds; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio. Date 1904 Aug. 13

Flight 41: Orville flying to the left at a height of about 60 feet; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio. Date 1905 Sept. 29

Wilbur Wright, age 30, seated facing right, half-length side view. Date 1897

Kill Devil Hill. Date 1900

Front view of glider in front of the camp building at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1911

Visitors and fellow campers in the Wrights work shed at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Left to right: Octave Chanute, Orville Wright, and Edward C. Huffaker seated at left and Wilbur Wright standing

Left front view of flight 46, Orville turning to the left, in the last photographed flight of 1905; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio. Date 1905 Oct. 4

Orville making right turn, showing warping of wings, hill visible in front of him; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1902 Oct. 24

Camp at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1900

Side view of flight 45, Orville flying to the left at a considerable height; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio. Date 1905 Oct. 3

Start of a glide; Wilbur in motion at left holding one end of glider (rebuilt with single vertical rudder), Orville lying prone in machine, and Dan Tate at right; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

Wright brothers rebuilding their glider in a wooden shed erected in July to serve as a workshop and to house the glider in bad weather, August, 1901; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1901 Aug

Group portrait in front of glider at Kill Devil Hill. Sitting: Horace Wright, Orville Wright, and Alexander Ogilvie; standing: Lorin Wright, and group of journalists

Wilbur Wright gliding from No. 2 Hill, west of the camp building. Date 1902 Oct. 10

Flying at Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio. Date 1904

Flight 19: Orville piloting, covering a distance of 356 feet, machine close to the ground; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio. Date 1904 Aug. 5

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