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Flight and Early Aviators
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[Detail] First flight, 120 feet in 12 seconds, 10:35 a.m.; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

[Detail] First flight; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina   About this image

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Historical context and ideas for integrating individual digital collections of primary sources into instruction.

Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress, 1862-1939 (Summary and Teaching Resources) Subject headings aerodromes, airplanes, flight, aeronautics etc to find resources and documents related to flight history and Bell’s experiments with kits and aviation.

History of the American West: 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library (Summary and Teaching Resources) Subject headings – airplanes, air pilots, air shows, airports and fighter planes - will yield numerous flight related photographs.

Photographs From the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933 (Summary and Teaching Resources) Subject headings flight, air pilots, airplanes, air pilots, air shows, airplane hangers, airships, balloonists will yield numerous flight related photographs.

Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress (Summary Only) This collection documents the lives of the Wright Brothers and their work to develop the first powered and controlled aircraft. It includes their scrapbooks, images of their activities, diaries, drawings and letters.

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