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Engraving of Wilbur Wright

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08878.0993 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Engraving Signed Date: circa 1903 Pagination: 1 print : b&w ; Order a Copy

One engraving of Wilbur Wright dated circa 1903. Bust portrait of Wright. Part of a series of portraits of famous inventors on the back of the images is 16 images of inventors with a paragraph praising them as "Discoverers of the New World in the Air."

Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912

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