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Keyword | Browse by The online presentation of The Wilbur and
Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress, comprising
about 10,121 library items or approximately 49,084 digital
images, documents the lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright and
highlights their pioneering work which led to the world's first
powered, controlled and sustained flight. Included in the
collection are correspondence, diaries and notebooks,
scrapbooks, drawings, printed matter, and other documents, as
well as the Wrights' collection of glass-plate photographic
negatives. The Wright brothers' letters to aviation pioneer and
mentor Octave Chanute, from the Octave Chanute Papers, were also
selected for this online collection. The Wright Papers span the
years 1881 to 1952 but largely cover 1900 to 1940. This online
presentation includes the famous glass-plate negative of the
"First Flight" at Kitty Hawk on Decemb