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| Date: | 09 12 1908 |
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| Description: | Demonstration of the Wright Flyer. |
| Date: | 09 17 1908 |
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| Description: | Soldiers at Fort Myer, Virginia, watching Orville Wright demonstrate the Wright Brothers' airplane for the U.S. Army. Milwaukee's Billy Mitchell is said to... |
| Date: | 09 1908 |
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| Description: | Among the spectators present to watch Orville Wright's demonstration of the Wright Flyer at Fort Myer, Virginia, were Lt. Frank P. Lahm (left), one of the ... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Wilbur Wright, in the bowler hat, preparing the Flyer for the conclusion of the test required to win a U.S. Army contract. The 1908 demonstration had been ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Run-down building with a stone chimney in a rural landscape. The photograph is identified as "Steele's Tavern." Cyrus McCormick successfully demonstrated h... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the family farm, Walnut Grove, of Robert Hall McCormick (father of Cyrus Hall McCormick). |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Colored postcard view of crowd in front of the stand. Caption reads: "Human Confederate Flag." Text at top right reads: "And 'twill live in song and story.... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | View of the Old Capitol at Williamsburg during the Jamestown Exposition. Signs advertise, "Colonial Virginia, Accurately Reproduced, Smith's Adventures Wi... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | View of the statue, "Indian Buffalo Hunt," by Henry Bush-Brown. The sculpture was exhibited at the Jamestown Exposition. |
| Date: | 05 19 1909 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu listing for a luncheon for President William Taft, with a wreath superimposed over two crossed flags: a 24-star Union flag and a Confe... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Map showing operations in Virginia during Wilson's Raid. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Edward Anderson Alderman, the first President of the University of Virginia. He was an education reformer for the university, an... |
| Date: | 07 15 1909 |
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| Description: | Postcard of the new cement driveway. The corner of the house is in the left foreground, and at the entrance to the drive is a gate and fence. On the right ... |
| Date: | 07 14 1909 |
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| Description: | View looking towards the gate and fenced entrance of the new cement driveway. A building, perhaps a garage, is behind the fence on the left. The house is b... |
| Date: | 07 14 1909 |
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| Description: | View looking down on fenced fields, with some harvested bundles of what may be hay. There are two reapers parked near the fence. In the distance are mounta... |
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