Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright - NASA's History Office

The Wright Brothers. Collier s, Dec. 25, 1948, vol. 122,
no. 26, p. 10 and cover.
Painting of the Wright brothers by Arthur Lidov
from a composite portrait photograph by Hollinger &
Company, 1907. Donated by Orville Wright to the
Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences.
[Bronze Bust of Wilbur Wright] In Annual Report of the
Smithsonian Institution, 1950, Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office, 1951, pp. 125, 132.
Brief descriptive note on bust of Wilbur Wright by
the sculptor Oskar J. W. Hansen, presented to the
Smithsonian Institution, January 27, 1950, by Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer F. Weiboldt.
[Oil Portrait of Wilbur Wright] In Annual Report of the
Smithsonian Institution, 1951, Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office, 1952, pp. 127, 132.
Note on receipt of oil portrait done from life by J.
A. Herve Mathe. Commissioned by Frank S. Lahm
and given to Smithsonian Institution by his son and
daughter, Gen. Frank P. Lahm and Mrs. Frank Parker.
Wilbur and Orville Wright and Their
Accomplishments, an Oil Painting By Dwight
Mutchler. Dedication, December 17, 1959. Columbus:
The F. J. Heer Printing Company, 1959, 9 pp.
Descriptive booklet produced by the Public Works
Department of Ohio and the Ohio Historical Society
on the occasion of the unveiling of the painting. The
painting was authorized by the Ohio General
Assembly, May 1957, to be hung in the Ohio State
Capitol Building and the commission awarded to
Dwight Mutchler of Athens, Ohio, October 11, 1958.
Sweet, Floyd J. SSA to Participate at Kitty Hawk.
Soaring, Dec. 1963, vol. 27, p. 21.
Announcement of bronze memorial plaque, the
work of Capt. Ralph S. Barnaby, gift of the Soaring
Society of America, honoring the Wright brothers, to
be unveiled December 17, 1963, at Kitty Hawk, N.C.
SSA Installs Plaque at Kitty Hawk. Soaring, Mar. 1964,
vol. 28, pp. 8—9, +illus.
The plaque consists of the likenesses of Wilbur and
Orville Wright in bas-relief and the caption They
Taught Us To Fly. Accurately depicted on the background
of the plaque are the gliders which the Wrights
flew on the Kitty Hawk dunes in 1901, 1902, and
1911.
Haggerty, James J. and Warren Reiland Smith. The U.S.
Air Force; a Pictorial History in Art, New York and
Washington, D.C.: Books, Inc., 1966, 261 pp., +illus.
Poetry
Comprises reproductions from the U. S. Air Force Art
Collection. Included, pp. 2—7, are The Wright
Brothers First Powered Flight, by Harvey Kidder;
Lieutenant Lahm s First Flight [with Orville
Wright], by Richard Green; and The Wright
Brothers at Fort Myer, by John McCoy.
New York University. The Hall of Fame for Great
Americans. Unveiling of the Busts and Tablets for
Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright in the Auditorium of
the Library of New York University, University Heights,
New York, May 7, 1967 New York: 1967, 24 pp.,
+illus.
Program issued for the occasion, setting forth and
illustrating some of the highlights in the career of the
Wright brothers. The bust of Wilbur Wright is the
work of Vincent Glinsky, and that of Orville Wright
the work of Paul Fjelde. A Wright brothers medal
designed by Paul Fjelde was also issued in commemoration
of the event.
Poetry
Andrews, John W. The Story of Orville and Wilbur
Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. [Sixtieth
Anniversary Edition]. Westport, Connecticut: Pavilion
Press, 1963, 31 pp.
Originally published as a part of his poem titled
Prelude to Icarus, New York: Farrar & Rinehart,
1936, pp. 115—134; also published in 1962 in Cape
Hatteras edition, Westport, Connecticut: Pavilion
Press, 1962, 29 pp. Brief extract published in Wings:
An Anthology of Flight, Bryden, H. G. ed., London:
Faber and Faber, 1942, p. 128.
Based on early experiments of the Wright brothers
at Kitty Hawk, N.C.
Baker, Joseph B. The Aviator. Aeronautics, June 1909,
vol. 4, p. 174.
On Wilbur Wright.
Ben t, Rosemary, and Ben t, Stephen Vincent. Wilbur
and Orville Wright. In their A Book of Americans, New
York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1933, pp. 106—107.
Juvenile book.
Ben t, William R. Kitty Hawk. In his With Wings as
Eagles; Poems and Ballads of the Air, New York: Dodd,
Mead, 1940, pp. 3—5.
Commander, Kingsmill. The Flagship. A Song of
Nineteen-Three. In his Vikings of the Stars, New York:
Harold Vinal, 1928, pp. 14—15.
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