From Fantasy to Flight - For Teachers (Library of Congress)

With Wings as Eagles - From Fantasie to Flight

1900s

(1907) Santos-Dumont sur le siège de son aeroplane (photograph)
(1908) Outlook On Aviation (article from Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers)
(1908) Baldwin’s White Wing in the Air (May 20, 1908 clipping from Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers)
(1908) Work of the Aerial Experiment Association (article by Alexander Graham Bell)
(1908) Photograph of the June Bug (from Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers)
(1908) Postcard, April 14, 1908 (photograph shows Aeroplane, "Red Wing" on first American public flight)
(1909) Louis Bleriot flying airplane, July 21, 1909 (photograph)
(1909) Letter from Julien A. Ripley to Alexander Graham Bell (August 30, 1909 letter regarding impressions of the aviation week at Rheims)
(1909) Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell (March 2, 1909 letter discusses aeronautic vocabulary)

1910-1920

(1910) Article by Alexander Graham Bell (October 11, 1910 notes on the construction of the aerodrome with an historical introduction)
(1910) British "Valkyrie" (Search the Prints and Photographs catalog using the term "airplanes –1910" to find more images from this time period)
(1910) Clark & Fitzwilliams "Cycleplane" (photograph)
(1910) Image of Charles Lewiston's airplane on the ground in a field in Chicago (photograph)
(1910) Aviator Glenn Curtiss sitting at the wheel of his airplane in a field (photograph)
(1910) Glenn Hammond Curtiss in biplane on ground (photograph)
(1910) Early aircraft engine, the La Rhone engine (photograph)
(1910) Aviator J. E. Plews's airplane (photograph)
(1910) Houdini and the magic of flight (photograph)
(1910) The hydro-"Fabre" (photograph of the first apparatus to take off from water)
(1910) Scott flying machine utilizing large discs (photograph)
(1910) Colonel Roosevelt is invited to fly in Arch Hoxsey's plane at St. Louis, MO (Edison movie)
(1910) 1st National Aviation Meet, Indianapolis Motor Speedway (panoramic view with airplanes added from other negatives before printing)
(1911) First airship crossing Continental Divide (photograph)
(1912) Glenn Martin sitting in an airplane at the Cicero air field (photograph)
(1913) Speech by Alexander Graham Bell (Address of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell in presenting the Langley Medal to Mr. Gustave Eiffel and to Mr. Glenn Curtis)
(1913) Aviator Glenn L. Martin landing an aeroboat in Lake Michigan (photograph)
(1914) Letter from E. L. Laur to Alexander Graham Bell (Laur asks Bell for help in designing a "helicopter") and Bells return answer
(1916) The ups and downs of aviation (pamphlet)
(1916-20) View of a Curtiss JN-4 training airplane in flight (photograph)
(1918) View of a Salmson single engine airplane used by American and Frenh observation in World War One (photograph)
(1919) View of a German Jeannini-Taube monoplane (photograph)
(1919) A Sopwith Strutter belonging to the 90th Observation Squadron (photograph)

1920s

(1921) Giant Caproni seaplane, with eight Liberty 400-hp motors (photograph)
(1920-1950) View of American Clipper plane in water (photograph)
(1922) The DeBothezat helicopter descending for a landing (photograph)
(1925) First mail airplane to arrive from New Orleans sitting on an airfield (photograph)
(1925) Charles Lindbergh, adusting parachute before testing Sergeant Bell's experimental plane (photograph)
(1927) Charles A. Lindbergh with the "Spirit of St. Louis" after arriving at Lowry Field (photograph)
(1927) Lindbergh does it! Lindbergh does it! To Paris in 33 1/2 hours; flies 1,000 miles through snow and sleet; cheering French carry him (New York Times front page)
(1927) A tribute to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh (address of Louis Ludlow, president of the National Press Club)
(1927) Pan American flyers and ships (panoramic photo)
(1928) Ford's flying flivver arrives in Washington (photograph)
(1929) The patrician, the largest passenger plane yet to be produced (photograph)

1930s

(1931) Fokker Tri-Motor after Landing in Denver (photograph)
(1931) Amelia Earhart in Denver (photograph)
(1931) Amelia Earhart and Frederick G. Bonfils with Beechnut Autogyro - first "near" helicopter (photograph)
(1933) Amelia Earhart's palm print and analysis of her character (document)
(1930s) Amelia Earhart (pamphlet)
(1935) Will Rogers, standing on wing of sea plane (photograph)
(1937) Glenn Martin debarking "China Clipper" for 25th anniversary of his flight to Catalina (photograph)

1940s

(1940s) C.B.F. Macauley: author of The Helicopters Are Coming (brochure)
(1941) Canfield Cook (advertisement for Canfield’s lecture – The Air World of Tomorrow)
(1942) North American P-51 fighters await flight tests on the flight ramp (photograph)
(1942) B-17 heavy bomber (photograph)
(1946) Flying Wing XB-35 (photograph)
(1946) Thunderjet XP-84 (photograph)
(1947) The Hughes Flying-boat seaplane under construction at its dock in Long Beach, CA (photograph)
(1948) Aerial view of U.S. Air Force's 100-ton Northrop Flying Wing YB-49 jet bomber in flight (photograph)
(1948) The Bell X-1 which flew faster than sound (photograph)
(1948) Jacqueline Cochran, aviator (photograph)

1950s and later

(1953) Aerial view of a Boeing B-47 (photograph)
(1957) The "Aerocar," a flying automobile (photograph)
(1961) Workmen assemble Project Mercury space capsules for American astronauts (photograph)
(1961) Alan Shepard being hauled into helicopter after landing his space (photograph)
(1968 or later) Marshall Space Flight Center, Saturn Propulsion and East Test (40 black and white photos from the Historic American Buildings Survey)
(1972) Nighttime launch of Apollo 17 (photograph)
(1980’s) Flight deck of space shuttle Columbia (photograph)

Last Updated: 02/14/2011

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