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[Wilbur in prone position in damaged machine, on ground after unsuccessful trial of December 14, 1903, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina] (LOC)

[Wilbur in prone position in damaged machine, on ground after unsuccessful trial of December 14, 1903, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina]

 

[1903 Dec. 14]

 

1 negative : glass, dry plate ; 5 x 7 in.

 

Notes:

Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 56.

Photograph possibly taken by Orville Wright.

Photograph shows the shadow cast by the photographer.

Forms part of: Glass negatives from the Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright.

 

Subjects:

Wright, Wilbur,--1867-1912.

Airplanes--North Carolina--Kitty Hawk--1900-1910.

Flight testing--North Carolina--Kitty Hawk--1900-1910.

Shadows--North Carolina--Kitty Hawk--1900-1910.

Aircraft accidents--North Carolina--Kitty Hawk--1900-1910.

 

Format: Dry plate negatives--1900-1910.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

 

Part Of: Glass negatives from the Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright (DLC) 00649999

 

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppprs.00611

 

Call Number: LC-W86- 20

 

 

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Taken sometime in 1903