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Caretakers of the Sky: The Wright Brothers and Recording the Aerial Age

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Photograph of the Wright Brothers’ Camp in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina,” Records of the US Army Air Forces, Record Group 18, National Archives Local Identifier: 18-WP-48625. According to the National Park Service, in 1900 the Wright’s contacted the U.S. to record an airplane in flight at his own expense.

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Queens of the Air: American Women Aviation Pioneers

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This post was co-written with Katherine Stinson , an Archives Specialist in the National Archives (NARA) Moving Image and Sound Branch. One of the joys of archives is discovering a research subject you never even knew was missing from your life. Local Identifier: 165-WW-429P-1281; National Archives Identifier: 45532836.

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One of the County’s Earliest African-American Radio Programs on WNYC 1929-1930

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Department of Agriculture, where he was involved with research related to black farmers. Holsey wrote many articles, most related to business topics, and was business manager of Crisis , the official publication of the NAACP, when W. WNYC Archive Collections). Du Bois edited the journal.

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The Wright Military Flyer Soars on Celluloid: Uncovering the Story of Our Oldest Government Film

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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is well known for preserving the first written records of our nation. Baumhofer names United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) employee Winfield Scott Clime , later a famous landscape painter, as the cameraman who filmed the 1908 test.