[Orville Wright, about three years old, half-length portrait, in oval, facing front] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Orville Wright, about three years old, half-length portrait, in oval, facing front], [1874?] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d8/d8b1d5b2e028-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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Step back in time with [Orville Wright, about three years old, half-length portrait, in oval, facing front], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Orville Wright, about three years old, half-length portrait, in oval, facing front]
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A small boy of about three, Orville Wright sits in this half-length portrait within an oval, looking straight at the camera. The record dates it to about 1874, though the question mark signals that the year is an estimate. Orville, born in 1871 in Dayton, Ohio, was the younger brother of Wilbur Wright, and the two later built the first successful powered airplane. They made its first controlled, sustained flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903. Oval vignettes like this were a common studio format in the 1870s, so the portrait also reflects the conventions of its time.
| Created / published | [1874?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1870-1880.Photographic prints 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Title devised by Library staff. |
| Subjects | Wright, Orville,--1871-1948. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,006 × 1,432 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif08396_OrvilleWrightaboutthreeyearsol |
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