Dwight Davis decorating Orville Wright, [2/27/29] – Vintage Photo Print
![Dwight Davis decorating Orville Wright, [2/27/29], [1929 February 27] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/52/5255bb96c9f7-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures Dwight Davis decorating Orville Wright, [2/27/29] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Dwight Davis decorating Orville Wright, [2/27/29]
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Here Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis pins a decoration on Orville Wright, the aviation pioneer who, with his brother Wilbur, made the first sustained powered flights in 1903. The ceremony took place in Washington on February 27, 1929, just weeks before Davis left office in the early days of the Hoover administration. The National Photo Company, a Washington studio that documented officials and public events in the 1910s through the 1930s, made the image on a glass plate. The faint streaks and spots across the surface are signs of the plate's age, and they add to its value as a record of the period.
| Created / published | [1929 February 27] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from related neg. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch four. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,305 × 4,263 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-246376 |
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