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U.S. Congress. Senate. An Act Providing for the Erection of a Monument on Kill Devil Hill at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Commemorative of the First Successful Attempt in History at Power-Driven Airplane Flight. January 11, 1927. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1927, 2 pp. (69th Congress, 2d Session. S. 4876). Introduced by Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut; referred to the Committee on the Library. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on the Library. Monument Commemorative of 1st Successful Attempt at Power-Driven Airplane Flight. Report [To Accompany S. 4876]. Submitted by Mr. Luce. February 4, 1927. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1927, 1 p. (69th Congress, 2d Session. House. Report 1989). Recommends new section in bill providing that designs and plans of monument be subject to approval of the Commission of Fine Arts and the Joint Committee on the Library. Warren, Lindsay. The Memorial in Commemoration of the First Successful Attempt in All History at Power- Driven Airplane Flight, Achieved by Orville Wright on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, N.C. Speech in the House of Representatives, Tuesday, February 8, 1927. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1927, 8 pp. Reprinted from Congressional Record, Feb. 8, 1927, vol. 68, pp. 3281—3282. S. 4876 an Act Providing for the Erection of a Monument on Kill Devil Hill, at Kitty Hawk, N.C., Commemorative of the First Successful Human Attempt at Power-Driven Airplane Flight. Approved March 2, 1927. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1927, 1 p. (Public Law 668, 69th Congress). Also in United States Statutes at Large, 1927-1929, vol. 44, pp. 1264—1265. The Memorial to the First Airplane Flight. Congressional Record, Mar. 3, 1927, vol. 68, p. 5803. Joint resolution by the General Assembly of North Carolina urging Congress to erect a memorial to the Wrights at Kitty Hawk; introduced into the record by Mr. Warren. Memorial to Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk. U.S. Air Services, Sept. 1927, vol. 12, p. 40. Brief note on the formation of the Kill Devil Hills Memorial Association, August 16, 1927, for the purpose of erecting a monument commemorating the first flights of the Wrights at Kitty Hawk, N.C. Monuments and Museums In Honor of the Wrights. Slipstream, Nov. 1927, vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 9—10, +illus. Editorial favoring Dayton, Ohio, over Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, as a site for Wright memorial. Wright Memorial Site Criticized. Slipstream, Jan. 1928, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 7—8, +illus. Further editorial favoring erection in Dayton of a suitable Wright Memorial for housing the first Wright machine and other Wright trophies. Monument on Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, N.C. In U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. War Department Appropriations Bill 1929. Hearings. January 19, 1928. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1928, pt. 2, pp. 420—421. An Act Making Appropriations for the Military and Non-military Activities of the War Department for the Fiscal Year June 30, 1929, and for Other Purposes. Approved March 23, 1928. In United States Statutes at Large, 1927-1929, vol. 44, pp. 326—365. Includes an appropriation of $25,000 for the Kitty Hawk monument, p. 357. Wright Brothers to Be Honored by NAA. Aeronautic Review, Nov. 1928, vol. 6, p. 173, +illus. Announces planning of a memorial by the National Aeronautic Association on the spot from which the first flight was made at Kitty Hawk, N. C., on December 17, 1903. Status of Kitty Hawk Monument, N.C. In U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. War Department Appropriations Bill for 1930. Hearings November 15, 1928. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1928, pt. 2, pp. 53—54. Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the First Airplane Flight. Proceedings at the Exercises Held at Kitty Hawk, N.C., on December 17, 1928, in Commemoration of the Twenty- Fifth Anniversary of the First Flight of an Airplane Made by Wilbur and Orville Wright. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1929, 29 pp. (70th Congress, 2d Session. House. Document no. 520). Proceedings included are those relating to the laying of the cornerstone of the Wright Memorial and the unveiling of the memorial erected by the National Aeronautic Association on the spot from which the Wrights made their December 1903 flights. Neely, Frederick R. N. A. A. Marks Site of the First Airplane Flight with Impressive Ceremonies at Kitty Hawk. Aeronautics Review, Jan. 1929, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 4—7, +illus. A Bibliography 109
Account of unveiling of bronze tablet and boulder erected by the National Aeronautic Association on the site of the first flight, and of laying of cornerstone of Wright Memorial, Kill Devil Hill, N.C., December 17, 1928, in the presence of Orville Wright. Monument on Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, N.C. In U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations War Department Appropriations Bill for 1931. Hearings November 18, 1929. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1929, pt. 2, pp. 69—71. Reynolds, Carolyn L. Kill Devil Will Do No More Wandering Now That It Is Firmly Anchored with Grass Shrubs, Grass, and Vegetables Now Growing on Sandy Desert. Congressional Record, Jan. 8, 1930, vol. 72, pp. 1256—1258. Reprinted from the Raleigh, N. C., News and Observer, August 18, 1929. Introduced into the record by Mr. Warren. Account of the work of the United States Army Quartermaster Corps in anchoring Kill Devil Hill. Wright Memorial Competition. Pencil Points, Apr. 1930, vol. 11, pp. 304—306, +illus. Winning design sketches by architects Robert Pliny Rodgers and Alfred Eastin Poor. U.S. Bureau of the Budget, Monument on Kill Devil Hill, N.C. Communication from the President of the United States Transmitting Supplemental Estimates of Appropriation for the War Department for the Fiscal Year 1930, to Remain Available until June 30, 1932, Amounting to $225,000 for Monument on Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, N.C., April 25, 1930. U.S. Bureau of the Budget Monument on Kill Devil Hill, N.C. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1930, 2 pp. (71st Congress, 2d Session. House. Document no. 369). Wright, Hamilton M. Chaining a Mountain of Sand. Popular Mechanics, July 1930, vol. 54, pp. 99—100, +illus. Account of the work of the United States Army Quartermaster Corps in their efforts to stabilize sand so as to provide a permanent base for the monument. Monument on Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, N.C. In U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations War Department Appropriations Bill for 1932. Hearings November 17, 1930. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1930, pt. 2, pp. 83—84. The Government s Memorial to the Wright Brothers. U.S. Air Services, Dec. 1930, vol. 15, no. 12, p. 42. Monuments and Museums 110 Wilbur & Orville Wright Government Memorial for Aviation s Birthplace. Southern Aviation, Aug. 1931, vol. 2, no. 12, p. 6, +illus. Sharp, Edward R. A Nation s Tribute to the Wrights. National Aeronautics Magazine, July 1932, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 14—17. Summarizes progress made to date on monument. Wright Memorial to Be Dedicated This Month. U.S. Air Services, Nov. 1932, vol. 17, no. 11, p. 25. A Fitting Memorial to the Pioneers of Flight. Air Corps News Letter, Nov. 30, 1932, vol. 16, pp. 458—459. Slightly abridged with title, The Monument at Kitty Hawk, Popular Aviation, Feb. 1933, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 99—100, 133, +illus. Account of dedication exercises held November 19, 1932. Wright Memorial Dedicated. U.S. Air Services, Dec. 1932, vol. 17, no. 12, pp. 20—21, +illus. Account of dedication exercises attended by Orville Wright. The Granite Wing at Kitty Hawk. U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Jan. 1933, vol. 59, pp. 140—141. Reprinted from New York Herald Tribune, November 20, 1932. Fitzgerald, Francis V. Shifting Sands. How the Wright Memorial Was Built. Quartermaster Review, Jan.-Feb. 1933, vol. 12, pp. 45—48, +illus. Graves, Louis. The Wright Memorial and Its Interesting Custodian. U.S. Air Services, June 1933, vol. 18, no. 6, p. 31. Reprinted from Chapel Hill Weekly. Saunders, W. O., ed. A Souvenir Handbook of the Wright Memorial. Elizabeth City, N.C.: The Independent, 1935, 29 pp., +illus. A descriptive brochure including the act of Congress creating the monument and special contributions on The Granite Man s Job by John P. Frank, Orville Wright s Own Story, and the author s America s First Airplane Casualty [John T. Daniels], reprinted from Collier s, September 17, 1927. . Two Historic Shrines. The Wright Memorial and Fort Raleigh on Roanoke Island. Elizabeth City, N.C.: W. O. Saunders, 1937, 30 pp. The Wright Memorial, pp. 5—25. World s First Airport Deserves a Landing Field. U.S. Air Services, Dec. 1937, vol. 22, no. 12, pp. 7—8.
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