Charles Wald Collection 1910-1916

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Charles Wald Collection 1910-1916

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This collection documents the training of Charles Wald, an early American aviator. It also documents the Wright Company's early involvement in water-based aviation.The collection includes flight records and negatives. The flight diary and logs were written by Charles Wald in 1912 and the photographs were taken by him, with the exceptions of those in which he is shown, between 1910 and 1916. The images in this collection have been scanned and are available online in Wright State University's Campus Online Repository (CORE Scholar): http://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/special_ms355/ .

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Wright State University, Special Collections and Archives

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