Wilbur Wright
Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Wright, Wilbur 1867-1912
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- Wilbur Wright, one of the co-inventors of the first aircraft. The Wright Brothers wrote to Smithsonian Secretary Samuel P. Langley for advice on inventing flying machine early in their work. They later donated some of their historic aircraft to the Institution.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 25, Folder: 41
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- Standard number
- A-32497-a or A32497A
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Portraits
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Aeronautics
- Airplanes
- Inventors
- Portraits
- Record ID
- siris_sic_10317
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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