Tag Archives: Wright Brothers

Archives to be featured in C-SPAN’s Cities Tour

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Lisa Rickey

Special Collections & Archives will be one of several Dayton area cultural institutions that will be featured on an upcoming episode of C-SPAN’s 2013 Cities Tour of BookTV & AmericanHistoryTV. One of C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles arrived at the Dunbar … Continue reading →

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New Collection: Louis P. Christman Drawings

Posted on October 24, 2013 by gino

Upon creating Carillon Park in the early 1940s, Colonel Edward Deeds wished to reconstruct the original Wright Brothers’ 1905 Flyer in one of the park’s buildings. As Orville and Wilbur Wright had never produced a complete set of drawings or … Continue reading →

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Katharine Wright’s Legacy

Posted on September 17, 2013 by dawne

Special Collections and Archives in the Wright State University Libraries holds one of the most complete collections of Wright Brothers material in the world. This collection documents the story of the invention of powered flight by two brothers from Dayton, … Continue reading →

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