07724cpcaa2201129 a 4500 mm 78046706 DLC 20260227111627.0 cr ||||||||||| 790119|||||||||||| eng mm 78046706 ms 60000588 DLC dacs DLC DLC eng fre ger S lcmd Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright papers, 1809-1979 (bulk 1900-1948). 32,250 items. 120 containers plus 13 oversize. 15 microfilm reels. 61 linear feet. Arranged in 7 series. Series 1: Diaries and Notebooks, 1900-1919; Series 2: Family Papers, 1881-1973; Series 3: General Correspondence, 1888-1951; Series 4: Subject File, 1809-1964; Series 5: Scrapbooks, 1902-1948; Series 6: Marvin W. McFarland File, 1880-1979; and Series 7: Oversize, 1889-1950. Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, writings, business and legal papers, genealogical material, patents, blueprints, photographs, printed material, and other papers documenting the lives and work of the Wright brothers who designed, built, and piloted the first machine to achieve powered, sustained flight in 1903 and the first practical airplane in 1905. The papers include scientific data, formulas, and computations related to aerodynamic and design factors and describe the brothers' experimentation with flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., 1900-1903, at College Park, Md., in 1909, and at Montgomery, Ala., in 1910, and their trips abroad making flight demonstrations. Subjects include the sale of the Wright airplane to the U.S. Army and others; business concerns involving the Wright Company, Flint and Company, Brewer and Son, Thierry Brothers, and companies established in Great Britain, France, and Germany to produce and sell Wright aircraft; the Wright brothers' patents in the U.S. and abroad as well as airplane patents by others; and the brothers' dispute with Smithsonian Institution over whether S.P. Langley had created an aircraft capable of flight prior to the Wrights' flight in December 1903. Also includes journals and ledgers from Wright and Wright printing company and Wright Cycle Company; records of the U.S. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics; typescripts, research material, and photographs collected for The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, edited by Marvin Wilks McFarland and published in 1953; and Wright family papers including transcripts of Milton Wright's diaries, 1901-1907. Wright family correspondents include Katharine Wright Haskell, Lorin Wright, Milton Wright, and Reuchlin Wright. Other correspondents include Henry Harley Arnold, Hart O. Berg, Griffith Brewer, Octave Chanute, Robert J. Collier, Earl N. Findley, Benjamin Delahauf Foulois, Fred C. Kelly, Roy Knabenshue, Frank Purdy Lahm, Charles A. Lindbergh, Grover Cleveland Loening, Glenn L. Martin, Charles Stewart Rolls, G.A. Spratt, Paul Tissandier, Harry A. Toulmin, and Pliny W. Williamson. Selected material also available through the Library of Congress Web site. Microfilm edition of selections available; no. 9,349. Microfilm addition of diaries available; no. 17,424. Microfilm edition of scrapbooks available; no. 17,705. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1950-1979. Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Aviation pioneers and inventors. Collection material in English, with French and German. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998012 Arnold, Henry Harley, 1886-1950 Correspondence. Berg, Hart O., 1865-1941 Correspondence. Brewer, Griffith, 1867-1948 Correspondence. Chanute, Octave, 1832-1910 Correspondence. Collier, Robert J. Correspondence. Findley, Earl N. (Earl Nelson), 1878-1956 Correspondence. Foulois, Benjamin Delahauf, 1879-1967 Correspondence. Haskell, Katharine Wright, 1874-1929 Correspondence. Kelly, Fred C. (Fred Charters), 1882-1959 Correspondence. Knabenshue, Roy, -1960 Correspondence. Lahm, Frank Purdy, 1877-1963 Correspondence. Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont), 1834-1906. Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 Correspondence. Loening, Grover, 1888-1976 Correspondence. Martin, Glenn L. (Glenn Luther), 1886-1955 Correspondence. Rolls, Charles Stewart, 1877-1910 Correspondence. Spratt, G. A. (George Alexander), 1880-1934 Correspondence. Tissandier, Paul, 1881- Correspondence. Toulmin, Harry A. (Harry Aubrey), -1942 Correspondence. Williamson, Pliny W., -1958 Correspondence. Wright, Lorin Correspondence. Wright, Milton, 1828-1917 Correspondence. Wright, Reuchlin Correspondence. Wright family. Wright family Correspondence. United States. Army Procurement. Brewer and Son. Flint and Company. Smithsonian Institution. Thierry Brothers. Wright Company. Aeronautics. Aircraft industry France. Aircraft industry Germany. Aircraft industry Great Britain. Aircraft industry United States. Airplanes. Bicycle industry Ohio Dayton. Flight. Patents. Printing Ohio Dayton. Wright Flyer (Airplane) College Park (Md.) History. Kitty Hawk (N.C.) History. Montgomery (Ala.) History. Aviators. itoamc Inventors. itoamc McFarland, Marvin Wilks, 1919- ed. Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, including the Chanute-Wright letters and other papers of Octave Chanute. 1953. Wright, Milton, 1828-1917. Milton Wright diaries. 1901-1907. Wright, Orville, 1871-1948. Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright papers. 1809-1979. Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912. Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright papers. 1809-1979. United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics records. Wright and Wright. Wright and Wright journals and ledgers. Wright Cycle Company. Wright Cycle Company journals and ledgers. Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress. Selected material http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wrighthtml/wrighthome.html Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998012 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998012.3 40065 40065