Wright Brothers - Photos - Hidden Images

The following assortment of post cards, illustrations, maps, and photographs are representative of the Outer Banks at the beginning of the twentieth-century. Included are scenes from eastern North Carolina’s favorite vacationing spot around Nags Head and Manteo, images of the varying modes of available transportation, and characterizations of daily life.



542 - Ocean Surf
565 - A View of Kitty Hawk Bay
546 - Willam J. Tate and His Family
547 - Captain and Mrs. James Hobbs
549 - Camp Kitty Hawk In Is Lunar Landscape
560 - Tenting at Camp Kitty Hawk
564 - The Wright's Environment
563 - The Lunar Landscape
567 - A Distant View of Kitty Hawk Village
568 - A Closer View of Kitty Hawk Village
557 - View of Kitty Hawk Lifesaving Station and Weather Station From The 1900 Camp
550 - Lifesavers At The Kitty Hawk Life Saving Station
551 - Second View of Lifesaver At Kitty Hawk
558 - Kitty Hawk Life Savers At Practive-Going Out
559 - Kitty Hawk Lifesavers At Practice-Coming In
545 - Thomas Tate, The First Wright Aviator
561 - An Odd Camera Goof
544 - The Wreck and The Village Beyond
556 - Discovering Kill Devil Hills
566 - The Majesty of Kill Devil Hills
15.7.20 - The 1901 Wright Camp From Atop Big Kill Devil Hill
576 - A Closer View
578 - Hamans Place-One of The Recluses For the Wrights
579 - The Sand Crab
581 - Kitty Hawk As A Salon On Flight
583 - The Characters of Kitty Hawk
15.5.22 - Wilbur Wright Drags the Tarpaper Procession as Orville Dresses for the Occasion
574 - Orville Displays he 1901 Glider Piled On End
571 - Wilbur and Orville Fly The 1901 Glider As A Kite
580 - Wilbur and Orville Fly the 1901 Glider as a Kite
575 - The Asencsion of Kill Devil Hill
569 - Launch Readiness
570 - Experimental Landings
15.7.21 - Reorganizing Kitty Hawk for Flight
15.7.22 - The Reassembled Kitchen
16.3.23 - The Reassembled Sleeping Space
593 - The 1920 Workshop/Dormitory/Living Space Complete
600 - The Lifesavers of Kill Devil Hills
631 - The Successful Test Sequence
630 - Wilbur Wright Aloft
602 - Wilbur Wright Soaring
592 - Orville Wright Soars As Well
597 - Wilbur Soars Even Longer
15.6.46 - Wilbur Over Kill Devil Hills
15.7.2 - The Original First Flight Celebration
15.6.2 - The Chanute Flyer Debacle
15.6.9 - Wright Trials Resume
15.6.5 - Another Triumphal Flight
598 - Controlled Flight
16.3.22 - 1903 Upgraded Living Quarters
15.6.40 - More Flights of the 1902 Graceful Glider
656 - Assembling The 1903 Powered Flyer
606 - Ready For Flight
607 - Ready for Flight
612 - Ready For Flight
613 - Ready For Flight
609 - Track Of Failed Flight
610 - Wilbur Grounded
615 - Readiness For Flight
669 - Wilbur Tracks Away Before Flight
626 - First Flight
629 - The Fourth Flight
614 - The Damaged Craft
624 - Bye, Bye Kitty Hawk
671 - The 1908 Headquarters Building
672 - The 1908 Dollies For Transporting Aircraft
673 - The Destroyed 1903 Camp
674 - A 1908 Kill Devil Hills Landscape
675 - The Kill Devil Hills Camp
705 - Panorama of the 1911 Camp
700 - Buster Wright And The 1911 Hangar
706 - View From 1911 Hangar
42.10 - Camp Life
42.14 - The Gun Toting Orville
693-Photo Opportunity #1
698-Photo Opportunity #2
699 - Orville Soars
692 - Observers Are Mesmerized
708 - Parson and Elder in the Whirlwind
697 - Posing with the Press
703 - The Telltale Door
711 - Farewell to Big Kill Devil