Wright Machine – Historic Print
![Wright Machine, [between 1918 and 1920] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/58/589c6394301b-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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A window into the past: Wright Machine, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Wright Machine
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The title on this glass negative, "Wright Machine," suggests an airplane built to the Wright brothers' design, though the record notes that the name comes from unverified data written by the National Photo Company. Orville and Wilbur Wright's powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903 launched a generation of aircraft built on their control principles, and their designs were widely used in aviation in the late 1910s. The negative is one of the company's glass plates from roughly 1918 to 1920, and it shows streaks and blemishes from the natural deterioration of its original coating.
| Created / published | [between 1918 and 1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. 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 one. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,285 × 4,247 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-229493 |
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![[Orville Wright, about three years old, half-length portrait, in oval, facing front]](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d8/d8b1d5b2e028-400.webp)