Orville Wright and Amelia Earhart at Wright Brothers monument, 1928

Object summary

Title: Orville Wright and Amelia Earhart at Wright Brothers monument, 1928
Object ID: GCP-00028699
Date made: 1928-12-18
Place made: United States, North Carolina, Kitty Hawk
Maker: Associated Press
Object type: Photograph
Major collection: MIT History
Named collection: Biographical/Subject Files Collection
On view: No

Description

A small crowd gathers around a stone monument celebrating the Wright brothers' first flight. Among the crowd are Hiram Bingham III, Connecticut Senator, Orville Wright, and Amelia Earhart.

Original caption: "Monument Dedicated to Wrights on Twenty-Five Anniversary of First Airplane Flight Delegates to the International Civil Aeronautics Conference visited Kitty Hawk, North Carolina to unveil a memorial dedicated to the Wright brothers' first heavier than air machine in 1903. (L to R) Orville Wright, Senator Bingham, of Conn. and Amelia Earhart, standing by memorial during the celebration on the Twenty-fifth anniversary."

Original credit line: Associated Press.

Used in: Boston Traveler, December 20 1928.