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Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright Papers, 1809-1979, (bulk 1900-1948)

Title: Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright Papers 1809-1979 (bulk 1900-1948)

Aviation pioneers and inventors. Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, business accounts, legal papers, minutes, reports, printed matter, photographs, blueprints, and scrapbooks relating primarily to the invention of the airplane and the development of aviation.

ArchivalResource: 32,250 items; 120 containers plus 13 oversize; 61 linear feet; 15 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998012 View

Haskell, Katharine Wright, 1874-1929. [Letter] 1913 December 29, Dayton, Ohio [to] Henry Woodhouse [New York] / Katharine Wright.

Title: [Letter] 1913 December 29, Dayton, Ohio [to] Henry Woodhouse [New York] / Katharine Wright. 1913.

Thank you note for holiday greetings.

ArchivalResource: [1] p. on 1 leaf ; 18 x 23 cm. folded to 18 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38198901 View

Metcalf, Irving Wight, 1855-1938. Papers, 1877-1937.

Title: Papers, 1877-1937.

The Irving Wight Metcalf (1855-1938) papers document the career of a minister turned businessman. Church records include parish registers and pamphlets. His work as an intermediary agent for Charles Martin Hall's (1863-1914) real estate transactions are recorded in several land titles and documents. Lecture notes provide a vivid picture of the curriculum offered by James H. Fairchild (1817-1902). Well documented is Metcalf's ongoing interest in the temperance movement; Metcalf was a founding member of the Anti-Saloon League.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25047468 View

Lahm, Frank Samuel, 1846-1931. Papers of Frank Samuel Lahm, circa 1850-1931.

Title: Papers of Frank Samuel Lahm, circa 1850-1931.

Correspondence, logs and barograph records of Lahm's balloon ascensions, regulations, resolutions, receipts, lectures, memoranda, photographs, clippings, part of an unfinished history of aeronautics, a biographical sketch by Lahm's children, and memorabilia. Includes several writings and two diaries of Henry Weaver, who, in 1905, investigated for Lahm the achievements claimed by Wilbur and Orville Wright. Among the correspondents are the Wright brothers and their sister Katharine, Griffith Brewer, Patrick Y. Alexander, Walter Wellman, Melvin and Ida Vanniman, and R. P. Skinner.

ArchivalResource: 1,000 items.4 containers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71131186 View

Wright family. [The Wright brothers collection], 1814-1996, bulk 1852-1945.

Title: [The Wright brothers collection], 1814-1996, bulk 1852-1945.

Collection of Wright family papers documenting activities of the Wright brothers and the Wright family from 1814 to 1945. Includes documents from the United States and Europe: genealogical records (1832-1909), newspapers (1886-1890), correspondence (1814-1857), scrapbooks (1890-1996), photographs, technical reports, journals, programs, newspapers, memorabilia, and rare books and pamphlets. Full descriptions of all items may be found in the finding aid: The Wright brothers collection : a guide of historical materials at the Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, by Elli Bambakidis.

ArchivalResource: 11 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48770338 View

Wright Brothers Collection, 1814-1996, 1852-1945

Title: Wright Brothers Collection 1814-1996 1852-1945

Collection of Wright family papers documenting activities of the Wright brothers and the Wright family from 1814 to 1945. Includes documents from the United States and Europe: genealogical records (1832-1909), newspapers (1886-1890), correspondence (1814-1857), scrapbooks (1890-1996), photographs, technical reports, journals, programs, newspapers, memorabilia, and rare books and pamphlets.

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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/archives/ead/ODa0001 View

Haskell, Katharine Wright, 1874-1929. [Letter] 1916 May 30, Dayton, Ohio [to] Henry Woodhouse, New York / Katharine Wright.

Title: [Letter] 1916 May 30, Dayton, Ohio [to] Henry Woodhouse, New York / Katharine Wright. 1916.

Thank you note, for a note written in remembrance of her brother.

ArchivalResource: [2] p. on 1 leaf ; 15 x 21 cm. folded to 15 x 11 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38198913 View

Wright Brothers collection. Papers, photographs, journals, 1853-1973

Title: Wright Brothers collection. Papers, photographs, journals 1853-1973

The Wright Brothers Collection housed in Special Collections and Archives in the Wright State University Libraries is one of the most complete collections of Wright material in the world. It includes the Wrights' own technical and personal library, family papers including letters, Bishop Milton Wright's diaries, financial records, genealogical files, and other documents detailing the lives and work of Wilbur and Orville Wright and the Wright Family. It also includes awards, certificates, medals, albums, recordings, and technical drawings. Perhaps the most valuable part of the collection are the thousands of photographs documenting the invention of the airplane and the lives of the Wright Family.

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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/archives/ead/ODaWU0101 View

Agnes Beck Letters, 1908-1929

Title: Agnes Beck Letters 1908-1929

The collection consists of eight letters written by Katharine Wright, sister of Wilbur and Orville Wright, to her close friend, Agnes Beck. The letters discuss Wilbur and Orville Wright, their flights, the Wright Family, and other personal matters.

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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/archives/ead/ODaWU0004 View

Leonard, Kate Bowne, 1875-1931. Papers, 1880-1931.

Title: Papers, 1880-1931.

Consists of childhood compositions, lecture notes, diaries and journals, photographs, and correspondence received from members of her family, and from her friend and classmate, Katharine Wright Haskell (1874- 1929), sister of Orville and Wilbur Wright.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25047469 View

Andrew S. Iddings Wright Brothers Homecoming Collection, June 1909

Title: Andrew S. Iddings Wright Brothers Homecoming Collection June 1909

Collection consists of negatives with accompanying contact prints, taken by Andrew S. Iddings, of the June 17-18, 1909 Dayton Homecoming Celebration to honor Orville and Wilbur Wright for their achievements in flight. In addition to members of the Wright family, other notable figures in the photographs are Ohio Governor Judson Harmon, Dayton Mayor Edward E. Burkhardt, General James Allen, and Lt. Frank Lahm.

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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/archives/ead/ODaWU0352 View