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Wright Exhibition at Fort Myer, VA.

5 December 2018, 14:00 EST
New York

US$800 - US$1,200

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Wright Exhibition at Fort Myer, VA.

ASHTON, HENRY, photographer. Three photos of Wright Airplanes, gelatin silver prints, all individually matted:

1. Wright Flyer airborne at Fort Myer, Virginia, 1908, 4-1/8 x 3-5/8 inches.
2. Pulling Orville from the crash at Fort Myer, Virginia, September 17, 1908, 4-1/4 x 3-3/4 inches. The crash was a major setback for the Wright Brothers with Orville badly shaken and suffering a broken leg and several broken ribs, and the death of passenger Lt. Thomas Selfridge.
3. Archie Hoxsey in Wright Flyer, 1910, 4-3/4 x 3/3/4 inches. Hoxsey was an auto mechanic who became acquainted with the Wright Brothers around the beginning of 1910 and taught flying at their flight school in Montgomery, Alabama. He was the first to fly an airplane at night, took Theodore Roosevelt up for a flight, and set a flight altitude record of 11,474 feet in December 1910. A few days later, he died in a crash while attempting to set a new record.
Provenance: Swann Galleries, April 7, 1993 and April 22, 1994.

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