Papers of Frank Samuel Lahm, circa 1850-1931.

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Papers of Frank Samuel Lahm, circa 1850-1931.

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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.

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