early aviation

Netherlands Institute of Military History Photo

More images from the collection of the Netherlands Institute of Military History are to be found at:..Voor meer beelden uit de collectie van het Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie kijk op:..nimh-beeld... More

Skalmodell av Emanuel Swedenborgs flygapparat "machine att flyga i wäd...

Early aircraft design: Scale model of Emanuel Swedenborg's "machine to fly in the weather" - an airplane from 1716. For the first time, the most important principles of the airplane with fixed, carrying wings w... More

Article by Alexander Graham Bell, undated

Taking views from an aeroplane - stereoscopic view, public domain phot...

Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Patent drawing - for a Flying Machine Public domain image

This is the printed patent drawing for a flying machine invented by W. F. Quimby. Patent Case Files

[Tending to pilot Orville Wright or passenger Lieutenant Thomas E. Sel...

No. 114875. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Article by Alexander Graham Bell, undated

[Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning history from 1...

Sheet of 10 uncut cards, individually captioned and numbered; issued as "Collection 476," "2ème série." French captions on each card. Tissandier collection. Exhibited: "The Dream of Flight" : American Treasure... More

Graham White's i.e., Claude Grahame-White's aeroplane

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Full name in title from Merriam-Webster's bi... More

[biplane?] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Glenn Curtiss at pilot's wheel of his biplane

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Bernasconi aeroplane, George Grantham Bain Collection

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Latham, Graham White [i.e., Claude Grahame-White]

Picryl description: Public domain image of an early aircraft, aeronautics, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Baron Caters in his biplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a biplane aircraft, pilot, aviator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Graham White [i.e., Claude Grahame-White] in Harmon Aero

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Frank Stanton, George Grantham Bain Collection

Head, seated in biplane, 6 men around him with a dog, (1- left profile). Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card t... More

Alexander Graham Bell papers - Notes, undated

Grahame-White, Claude, George Grantham Bain Collection

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative or caption card: Graham White. Full name in title from Merriam-Webster's b... More

Farman & wife - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Graham White's [i.e., Claude Grahame-White's] aeroplane

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Arbre in #3 Biplane at Reims - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a biplane aircraft, pilot, aviator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Deck of "Pennsylvania" showing Curtiss biplane

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

H.C. Cooke in Curtis biplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a biplane aircraft, pilot, aviator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Claude] Grahame-White's wrecked machine towed back, Bain News Service...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Deck of "Pennsylvania" showing the Curtiss biplane

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Glenn Curtiss at pilot's wheel of his biplane

Picryl description: Public domain image of a biplane aircraft, pilot, aviator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

L.G. Bergdoll's aeroplane in hangar

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Graham White i.e., Claude Grahame-White in Harmon Aero

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Full name in title from Merriam-Webster's bi... More

H.C. Cooke in Curtis biplane - Public domain portrait photograph

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Latham aeroplane, on flying field

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

[biplane?] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a biplane aircraft, pilot, aviator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Claude Grahame-White's wrecked machine towed back, Bain News Service B...

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. First name in title from Merriam Webster's b... More

T.O.M. Sopwith -- Airplane, George Grantham Bain Collection

Thomas Sopwith's scout biplane. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). www (-1973); Amer. Heritage...Flight. Caption card trac... More

Arbre in #3 Biplane at Reims - Public domain portrait photograph

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

A.L. Welch in right biplane - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Arbre in Biplane at Reims - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a biplane aircraft, pilot, aviator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Clipping, undated Alexander Graham Bell collection

Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lind Painter in a "Sommer" - aeroplane

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Mme. Franck, George Grantham Bain Collection

Full length, seated in biplane, (5 - facing front). Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Flight; Amer. Heritage Flight. Capt... More

Roger Sommer in a Farman Biplane

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Aviation in France - [Grahame-White, Claude]

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Deck of "Pennsylvania" showing Curtiss biplane

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Arbre in Biplane at Reims - Public domain portrait photograph

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Claude Grahame-White, George Grantham Bain Collection

In cockpit. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Shelf. No date is given; the numbers on the single ... More

Aeroplane in flight, George Grantham Bain Collection

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Roger Sommer in a Farman Biplane

Picryl description: Public domain image of a biplane aircraft, pilot, aviator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Graham White [i.e., Claude Grahame-White], Eleanor Sears

An old photo of a man and a woman. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Baron Caters in his biplane - Public domain portrait photograph

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Twining ornithopter, flying machine with bird-like wings

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bird in flight, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Aubrun - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

J.C. Mars and Tom Sharkey - Public domain portrait photograph

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Deck of "Pennsylvania" showing Curtiss biplane

Public domain photograph of ship, people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

World War I - Deseronto Archive Photos

Photo postcard of two Curtiss JN-4 aircraft. The one in the foreground has roundel insignia and number C 696. On the tail is a castle symbol, indicating that this was the training aircraft used by Vernon Castl... More

Alexander Graham Bell papers - Photograph, undated

Alexander Graham Bell Papers. Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Latham, Graham White i.e., Claude Grahame-White

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Full name in title from Merriam-Webster's bi... More

Glenn Curtiss, George Grantham Bain Collection

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Cockburn in Farman Biplane - Public domain portrait photograph

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Frank Stanton, George Grantham Bain Collection

Full length, standing in front of biplane with dog (Lieut. Lindley), (3 - facing left - left side of face is most visible). Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Ba... More

A.L. Welch in right biplane - Public domain portrait photograph

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Deck of "Pennsylvania" showing the Curtiss biplane

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Deck of "Pennsylvania" showing Curtiss biplane

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Claude] Grahame-White in monoplane

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Graham White i.e., Claude Grahame-White, Eleanor Sears

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Full name in title from Merriam-Webster's bi... More

Cockburn in Farman Biplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of aircraft hangar, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Childhood portrait of Wilbur Wright]

Title based on reference print. Copy negative of a portrait photograph taken circa 1877. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LOT 11512. Forms part of: Glass negatives from the Papers o... More

1902 Wright Brothers' Glider Tests

(October 10, 1902) Historic photo of the Wright brothers' third test glider being launched at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, on October 10, 1902. Wilbur Wright is at the controls, Orville Wright is at left, ... More

The Wright Brothers' First Heavier-than-air Flight

Description (December 17, 1903) On December 17, 1903, at 10:30am at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, this airplane arose for a few seconds to make the first powered, heavier-than-air controlled flight in history. Th... More

[LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT. SECRETARY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE. EXPERIMEN...

Public domain photograph of aircraft hangar, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT. SECRETARY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE. EXPERIMENT...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a biplane aircraft, pilot, aviator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT. SECRETARY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE. EXPERIMENT...

Public domain photograph of aircraft hangar, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT. SECRETARY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE. EXPERIMENT...

A black and white photo of an old airplane, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Gene... More

LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT. SECRETARY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE. EXPERIMENT...

A black and white photo of a boat in a body of water, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection for related negative LC-H261... More

LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT. SECRETARY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE. EXPERIMENT...

A black and white photo of an airplane in the water, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1... More

Portret van een onbekende vliegenier in een vliegtuig

Public domain scan of artwork in the Rijksmuseum, Netherlands, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

June Bug at Rheims, N.Y

Biplane taking off. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. "4113 A.S." Ernest L. Jones Collection. Caption card tracings: Airplanes; Geog.

Tyskland Wrights första biplan, 1908.

Wrights första biplan, 1908. Public domain photograph of a spacecraft, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Alexander Graham Bell papers - Clipping, 1908

Alexander Graham Bell Papers. Public domain scan of newspaper clippings. Free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Clipping, May 20, 1908 - Public domain document scan

Alexander Graham Bell Papers. Public domain scan of newspaper clippings. Free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Blueprint, November 27, 1908 - Public domain dedication image

Alexander Graham Bell Papers. Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions i... More

Alexander Graham Bell papers - Clipping, 1908

Alexander Graham Bell Papers. Public domain scan of newspaper clippings. Free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Fotoreproductie van een tekening, voorstellende een vliegtuig van Farm...

Public domain photograph of 19th-century photomechanical print, book illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vliegtuig van de gebroeders Wright in vlucht. Photomechanical print.

Public domain illustrated book page scan, collotype print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vliegtuig van Louis Blériot in vlucht. Photomechanical print.

Public domain illustrated book page scan, collotype print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Clipping, May 20, 1908 Alexander Graham Bell collection

Alexander Graham Bell Papers. Public domain scan of newspaper clippings. Free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Blueprint, November 27, 1908 Alexander Graham Bell collection

Alexander Graham Bell Papers. Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions i... More

Tyskland Deutsches Museum. Wrights biplan, 1908.

Deutsches Museum. Wrights biplan, 1908. Public domain photograph of aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vliegtuig van Voisin. Photomechanical print.

Public domain photograph of 19th-century vintage card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Letter, February 24, 1909 - Alexander Graham Bell family papers

Vliegtuig van Esnault-Pelterie in een weiland te Reims. Photomechanica...

Public domain photograph of 19th-century vintage card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vliegtuig van Léon Delagrange. Photomechanical print.

Public domain photograph of 19th-century vintage card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Letter, February 24, 1909 Alexander Graham Bell collection

Letter, February 23, 1909 Alexander Graham Bell collection

Letter, March 13, 1909 Alexander Graham Bell collection

Letter, February 23, 1909 - Alexander Graham Bell family papers

Vliegtuig in de lucht - Rijksmuseum public domain dedication image

Public domain scan of artwork in the Rijksmuseum, Netherlands, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Glenn Curtiss in zijn vliegtuig te Reims

Public domain photograph of aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Glenn Curtis - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of a man and a woman. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Wright aeroplane at Fort Myer, Virginia

Postcard showing Orville Wright flying biplane, Fort Myer, Va. 131162 U.S. Copyright Office. "Copyright 1909, G.M.C." below photo. Copyright registration records show G.M. Cramer Co., in Washington, D.C.

Glenn Curtis - Public domain photograph, glass negative

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vliegtuig van Antoinette met vijf portretten van vliegeniers. Photomec...

Public domain illustrated book page scan, collotype print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description