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245 0 0 _aWilbur Wright and Orville Wright papers,
_f1809-1979
_g(bulk 1900-1948).
300 _a32,250
_fitems.
300 _a120
_fcontainers plus
_a13
_foversize.
300 _a15
_fmicrofilm reels.
300 _a61
_flinear feet.
351 _aArranged 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.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
506 _aRestrictions may apply to unprocessed material.
520 8 _aCorrespondence, 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.
520 8 _aThe 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.
520 8 _aAlso 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.
520 8 _aWright 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.
530 _aSelected material also available through the Library of Congress Web site.
530 _aMicrofilm edition of selections available;
_dno. 9,349.
530 _aMicrofilm addition of diaries available;
_dno. 17,424.
530 _aMicrofilm edition of scrapbooks available;
_dno. 17,705.
533 _aMicrofilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division.
_bWashington, D.C. :
_cLibrary of Congress Photoduplication Service,
_d1950-1979.
544 _3Some photographs
_etransferred to
_aLibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
545 0 _aAviation pioneers and inventors.
546 _aCollection material in English, with French and German.
555 8 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998012
600 1 0 _aArnold, Henry Harley,
_d1886-1950
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBerg, Hart O.,
_d1865-1941
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBrewer, Griffith,
_d1867-1948
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aChanute, Octave,
_d1832-1910
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aCollier, Robert J.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aFindley, Earl N.
_q(Earl Nelson),
_d1878-1956
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aFoulois, Benjamin Delahauf,
_d1879-1967
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHaskell, Katharine Wright,
_d1874-1929
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aKelly, Fred C.
_q(Fred Charters),
_d1882-1959
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aKnabenshue, Roy,
_d-1960
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aLahm, Frank Purdy,
_d1877-1963
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aLangley, S. P.
_q(Samuel Pierpont),
_d1834-1906.
600 1 0 _aLindbergh, Charles A.
_q(Charles Augustus),
_d1902-1974
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aLoening, Grover,
_d1888-1976
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMartin, Glenn L.
_q(Glenn Luther),
_d1886-1955
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aRolls, Charles Stewart,
_d1877-1910
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSpratt, G. A.
_q(George Alexander),
_d1880-1934
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aTissandier, Paul,
_d1881-
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aToulmin, Harry A.
_q(Harry Aubrey),
_d-1942
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWilliamson, Pliny W.,
_d-1958
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWright, Lorin
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWright, Milton,
_d1828-1917
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWright, Reuchlin
_vCorrespondence.
600 3 0 _aWright family.
600 3 0 _aWright family
_vCorrespondence.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bArmy
_xProcurement.
610 2 0 _aBrewer and Son.
610 2 0 _aFlint and Company.
610 2 0 _aSmithsonian Institution.
610 2 0 _aThierry Brothers.
610 2 0 _aWright Company.
650 0 _aAeronautics.
650 0 _aAircraft industry
_zFrance.
650 0 _aAircraft industry
_zGermany.
650 0 _aAircraft industry
_zGreat Britain.
650 0 _aAircraft industry
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aAirplanes.
650 0 _aBicycle industry
_zOhio
_zDayton.
650 0 _aFlight.
650 0 _aPatents.
650 0 _aPrinting
_zOhio
_zDayton.
650 0 _aWright Flyer (Airplane)
651 0 _aCollege Park (Md.)
_xHistory.
651 0 _aKitty Hawk (N.C.)
_xHistory.
651 0 _aMontgomery (Ala.)
_xHistory.
656 7 _aAviators.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aInventors.
_2itoamc
700 1 2 _aMcFarland, Marvin Wilks,
_d1919-
_eed.
_tPapers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, including the Chanute-Wright letters and other papers of Octave Chanute.
_f1953.
700 1 _aWright, Milton,
_d1828-1917.
_tMilton Wright diaries.
_f1901-1907.
700 1 _aWright, Orville,
_d1871-1948.
_tWilbur Wright and Orville Wright papers.
_f1809-1979.
700 1 _aWright, Wilbur,
_d1867-1912.
_tWilbur Wright and Orville Wright papers.
_f1809-1979.
710 1 _aUnited States.
_bNational Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
_tUnited States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics records.
710 2 _aWright and Wright.
_tWright and Wright journals and ledgers.
710 2 _aWright Cycle Company.
_tWright Cycle Company journals and ledgers.
740 0 _aWilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress.
856 4 _3Selected material
_uhttp://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wrighthtml/wrighthome.html
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998012
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998012.3
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