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Correspondence of Octave Chanute, letters to Wilbur and Orville Wright, 1900-1910

Summary
Collection ID:
SIL-RR.TL540.C45A2w
Creators:
Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912
Wright, Orville, 1871-1948
Library of Congress
Chanute, Octave, 1832-1910
Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences (U.S.). Aeronautical Archives
Dates:
1900-1910
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
1 Volume
(various pagings)
28 cm.
Repository:
Administration
Existence and Location of Originals note
Library of Congress. Manuscript Division.
More Information
General note
General note
Title transcribed from spine.
General note
Carbon copy of the original typewritten transcript housed in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress.
General note
Leaves are printed on the recto side only.
General note
"The letters from the Wright Brothers to Mr. Chanute are not available to the public by direction of Mr. O. Wright. Aeronautical Archives of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, New York, 1944. Missing numbers refer to letters from Wilbur Wright to Mr. Chanute"--P. 1.
General note
A subject index (including personal names), having the typed title "Index of Octave Chanute letters to Wilbur and Orville Wright, May 17, 1900-January 23, 1910", is bound in at the front of the volume.
Local Notes
Local Notes
NASMRB copy 39088013423348 has bookplate: Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences. Presented by the Library of Congress to the Aeronautical Archives. With the printed label for the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences mounted on the front covers and its embossed stamp on p. 1. Accession no.: 11127.
NASMRB copy has a blue cloth binding with gilt-tooled red spine label and gray endpapers
Keywords
Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Air pilots -- Correspondence Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Aerodynamics Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Aeronautics Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Chanute, Octave, 1832-1910 -- Correspondence Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912 -- Correspondence Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 -- Correspondence Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Repository Contact
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