Title from caption on object: "Where Wright Brothers Successfully Experimented with Heavier-Than-Air Flying"

1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 7.2 × 19.2 cm (2 13/16 × 7 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 15 × 20.5 cm (5 7/8 × 8 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.276

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, top center stamped in blue ink: DEC 415 1928; upper center stamped in blue ink: FILE; upper center Associated Press copyright stamp in blue ink; by unknown hand, upper right in graphite circled and inverted: 6387; center printed in black ink on applied label inverted: ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO [illegible] NEW YORK / PLEASE WATCH YOUR CREDIT / WHERE WRIGHT BROTHER'S [sic] SUCCESSFULLY EXPERIMENTED / WITH HEAVIER-THAN-AIR FLYING / Photo shows the hangar and living quarters on the / sand dunes at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, where Or- / ville [circled in graphite] and Wilbur Wright [circled in graphite] built the first heavier- / than-air machine to fly. To the left of the picture / can be seen the motor powered machine that Orville / Wright made the first flight in, December 17, 1903. / The twenty-fifth anniversary of aviation will be / celebrated December 17th. at Kitty Hawk, North Carol- / ina.

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