Title from caption on object: "New Print Produced on First Air Flight”
December 17, 1903, printed later
John T. Daniels
Artist, American, 1873 - 1948
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 16.1 × 22.8 cm (6 5/16 × 9 in.)
sheet: 20.9 × 25.4 cm (8 1/4 × 10 in.) -
Accession Number
2018.177.273
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
by unknown hand, top right in graphite: 3x2; vertical along right edge printed in image: ((WX2-Mar.13) NEW PRINT PRODUCED ON FIRST AIR FLIGHT—This new print / showing the Wright brothers’ [circled in blue ink] historic first air flight near Kitty Hawk, / N.C., on December 17, 1903, was released by the Library of Congress in / Washington today, with the comment that it shows many details not visible / in any known previous printing. The picture was made by a camera set up / by Orville Wright and snapped by John T. Daniels. It shows Orville at / the controls and Wilbur Wright running beside the plane. / (ap wirephoto (bef610001cc) 1953; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in graphite inverted: 11189; upper left Associated Press copyright stamp in black ink; center right printed in black ink inverted: dfpb 46669; lower right stamped in purple ink: MAR 25 1953