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• Collection: Wright Brothers Negatives

• Title: [First flight, 120 feet in 12 seconds, 10:35 a.m.; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina]
• Other Title: First flight, December 17, 1903
• Related Names:
     Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912 , photographer
     Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 , photographer
     Daniels, John T. , photographer
• Date Created/Published: [1903 Dec. 17]
• Medium: 1 photograph : glass negative, dry plate ; plate 18 x 12.5 cm (5 x 7 format).
• Summary: Photograph shows the first powered, controlled, sustained flight. Orville Wright at the controls of the machine, lying prone on the lower wing with hips in the cradle which operated the wing-warping mechanism. Wilbur Wright running alongside to balance the machine, has just released his hold on the forward upright of the right wing. The starting rail, the wing-rest, a coil box, and other items needed for flight preparation are visible behind the machine. (Orville Wright preset the camera and had John T. Daniels squeeze the rubber bulb, tripping the shutter.)
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppprs-00626 (digital file from original) LC-W861-35 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-USZ62-6166A (b&w film copy neg.)
• Rights Advisory: No known restriction on publication.
  
• Access Advisory: Restricted access. Please use digital image or other reference copy. Original photograph is too fragile to serve.
• Call Number: LC-W86- 35 (Cabinet A) [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Title and subject note from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 57.
  • Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright.
  • Reference copy in LOT 11512.
  • For more information about this collection, see http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.wri
  • Forms part of: Glass negatives from the Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright.
  • Published in: The Joy of Looking: Great Photographs from the Library of Congress, 2023.
  • Published in: "Architecture ..." chapter of the ebook Great Photographs from the Library of Congress, 2013.
  • Published in: American treasures in the Library of Congress. New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1997, p. 96.
  • Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.
  • Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 286.
  • Library of Congress prints and photographs: an illustrated guide / Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 19.
  • Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 49.
  • Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America's Library" at the Annenberg Space for Photography, 2018; Portrait section.
  • Lccn 96507704 had a version of this record for a reference print
• Subjects:
  • Wright, Orville,--1871-1948.
  • Wright, Wilbur,--1867-1912.
  • Airplanes--North Carolina--Kitty Hawk--1900-1910.
  • Firsts--North Carolina--Kitty Hawk--1900-1910.
• Format:
  • Dry plate negatives--1900-1910.
• Collections:
  • Wright Brothers Negatives
• Part of: Glass negatives from the Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright
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• Rights Advisory: No known restriction on publication.
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppprs-00626 (digital file from original) LC-W861-35 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-USZ62-6166A (b&w film copy neg.)
• Call Number: LC-W86- 35 (Cabinet A) [P&P]
• Medium: 1 photograph : glass negative, dry plate ; plate 18 x 12.5 cm (5 x 7 format).

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• Call Number: LC-W86- 35 (Cabinet A) [P&P]
• Medium: 1 photograph : glass negative, dry plate ; plate 18 x 12.5 cm (5 x 7 format).
• Access Advisory: Restricted access. Please use digital image or other reference copy. Original photograph is too fragile to serve.

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