Wright Collection (page 18)

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

The Copy Cat Killings - front cover by David Wright
Front cover of a pulp fiction paperback, The Copy-Cat Killings by Martin Thomas, with a vampish femme fatale painted by David Wright. Date: 1950

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

Wilbur gliding down steep slope of Big Kill Devil Hill; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1902 Oct. 10

Childhood portrait of Wilbur Wright. Date between 1901 and 1928

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

Side view of flight 45, Orville flying to the right close to the ground, covering a distance of about 14.2 miles in 25 minutes and 5 seconds; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio. Date 1905 Sept. 3

Wilbur in glider turning rapidly to the left, Dan Tate running alongside; Big Kill Devil Hill. Date 1902 Oct. 10

Hill between Kitty Hawk and Kill Devil Hill. Date 1900

Crumpled glider wrecked by the wind on Hill of the Wreck (named after a shipwreck). Date 1900 Oct. 10

Powered 1903 machine in the shop. Date 1903

Book cover by David Wright You Can Call It a Day by Peter Ch
Book jacket designed by David Wright for the title, You Can Call it a Day by Peter Cheney featuring a red-haired woman wearing an alluringly, transparent black dress

Head and shoulders of a blonde woman by David Wright
Head and shoulders of a haughty looking woman with her blonde hair up by David Wright c.1947

Unfinished illustration of a 1940s couple by David Wright
Unfinished illustration by David Wright, better know for his pin-up girls during World War II, showing an elegantly dressed woman seated at a table and having a drink with an (unfinished)

Esme seated by David Wright
Portrait by artist David Wright, best known for his pin-ups of his wife, model and muse, Esme pictured looking pensive while seated in an armchair. Date: c.1943

Woman in turban by David Wright
A woman with her hair in a turban or towel, possibly Esme, model wife of the artist, David Wright. Date: c.1948

Sketch of a woman by David Wright
Sketch of an unknown woman by David Wright, better known for his pin-up girls during World War II. Date: c.1940

Glamorous woman by David Wright
A woman strikes a seductive pose by a window, revealing the tops of her stockings. Date: c.1948

Stockinged legs by David Wright
A pair of shapely legs in stockings and suspenders belonging to someone wearing a pair of black, silk French knickers, by pin-up artist, David Wright. Date: c.1947

Soldier, World War II by David Wright
Painting by David Wright of a soldier in Army uniform identified only as John seated while drawing in a sketchbook. 1943

Esme in a chair by David Wright
Candid black and white sketch by David Wright of his wife, muse and model, Esme, relaxing in an armchair. Date: c.1943

1950s woman by David Wright
A bold painting by David Wright of a red-haired woman wearing a glamorous black, one-shoulder evening gown, set against a lime green background. Date: c.1950

Portrait of a woman in underwear by David Wright
Unfinished drawing by David Wright, Britains foremost pin-up artist of the wartime era, of a woman in a bra and slip. Date: c.1944

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