Wright brothers glass-plate negative collection

Subjects depicted include portraits of the Wright brothers and their family members; friends and associates; views of the Wright family home at 7 Hawthorn St., Dayton, Ohio; Orville Wright's home "Hawthorne Hill", Dayton; family gatherings; the brothers performing gliding experiments and powered flight tests at Kitty Hawk, N.C., and at Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio, (including views of the first flight at Kitty Hawk, Dec. 17, 1903). Also includes images of the Wright camp at Kitty Hawk; airplane motors; a few views of the Wright Company plant; portraits of Orville Wright's dog Scipio; some landscape views of areas around Dayton, Ohio, and Kitty Hawk, N.C. Also, Charles Lindbergh at Wilbur Wright Field, 1927; photographs of documents relating to a legal case against Bishop Milton Wright.Use the digital versions to preserve the fragile original negatives.LOT title devised by Library staff.Negatives are assigned the following filing series designations: LC-W85 (for 4x5 in.) and LC-W86 (for 5x7 in. and nitrate)Orville and Wilbur Wright, pioneers in early aviation, used photography to document their experiments with flight.Transfer; Science and Technology Division; 1962.A set of catalog records describing each item is available through the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. See http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/lcoa1.aboutForms part of: The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright