Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The earliest photograph depicts the brothers Albert and Gaston Tissandier with their airship, the first to use electric navigation; it is dated October 8, 1883, and is signed by both brothers. Contemporary photographic prints relating to the Wright brothers include the brothers posing with the "1904 Flyer" at Huffman Prairie (Simms Station), 1904; Wilbur Wright, F. S. Lahm, and Hart O. Berg with the Wright airplane at HunaudiŠres au Mans (Sarthe), France, 1908; and a Wright flyer...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The earliest photograph depicts the brothers Albert and Gaston Tissandier with their airship, the first to use electric navigation; it is dated October 8, 1883, and is signed by both brothers. Contemporary photographic prints relating to the Wright brothers include the brothers posing with the "1904 Flyer" at Huffman Prairie (Simms Station), 1904; Wilbur Wright, F. S. Lahm, and Hart O. Berg with the Wright airplane at HunaudiŠres au Mans (Sarthe), France, 1908; and a Wright flyer...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The Los Angeles Aviation Meet at Dominguez Hills in January 1910 is represented by two photographs, one a composite of airplanes over the stadium, the other of French aviator Louis Paulhan over the stadium. The collection also contains several photographic postcards of the San Francisco Air Meet, January 1911, the gift of B. W. Cohoon, of Pomona, CA; these postcards depict Philip Parmalee in his Wright Standard, Hubert Latham and his "Antoinette", and a Farman biplane. Two...