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245 00 $aWilbur Wright and Orville Wright papers,$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.
541 $cBequest,$aOrville Wright,$d1949.
541 $cOther gift, transfer, and purchase,$d1949-2002.
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 10 $aArnold, Henry Harley,$d1886-1950$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aBerg, Hart O.,$d1865-1941$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aBrewer, Griffith,$d1867-1948$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aChanute, Octave,$d1832-1910$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aCollier, Robert J.$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aFindley, Earl N.$q(Earl Nelson),$d1878-1956$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aFoulois, Benjamin Delahauf,$d1879-1967$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aHaskell, Katharine Wright,$d1874-1929$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aKelly, Fred C.$q(Fred Charters),$d1882-1959$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aKnabenshue, Roy,$dd. 1960$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aLahm, Frank Purdy,$d1877-1963$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aLangley, S. P.$q(Samuel Pierpont),$d1834-1906.
600 10 $aLindbergh, Charles A.$q(Charles Augustus),$d1902-1974$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aLoening, Grover,$d1888-1976$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aMartin, Glenn L.$q(Glenn Luther),$d1886-1955$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aRolls, Charles Stewart,$d1877-1910$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aSpratt, G. A.$q(George Alexander),$d1880-1934$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aTissandier, Paul,$db. 1881$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aToulmin, Harry A.$q(Harry Aubrey),$dd. 1942$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aWilliamson, Pliny W.,$dd. 1958$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aWright, Lorin$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aWright, Milton,$d1828-1917$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aWright, Reuchlin$vCorrespondence.
600 30 $aWright family.
600 30 $aWright family$vCorrespondence.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bArmy$xProcurement.
610 20 $aBrewer and Son.
610 20 $aFlint and Company.
610 20 $aSmithsonian Institution.
610 20 $aThierry Brothers.
610 20 $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 12 $aMcFarland, Marvin Wilks,$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.
852 $aLibrary of Congress$bManuscript Division$eWashington, D.C. 20540 USA$ndcu$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home
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