Credits

"Taking to the Skies: The Wright Brothers and the Birth of Aviation" is an On Display project first developed in December 2003.
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Online Curators: Paul K. McCutcheon and William E. Baxter

With special thanks to the staff of the National Air and Space Museum for reviewing the text.

Thanks also to Mary Ann Wilson, Smithsonian Institution Libraries for assistance with the text and image selection

"Song of the Wright Boys"
Composer: Words and Music by Mary E. Knostman
Publisher: Reisbach & Knostman, 1909
Performed by: Christopher Flint, bass, Jon Kalbfleisch, piano

Recorded for The Wright Brothers & the Invention of the Aerial Age at the Levine School of Music in Washington, D.C., in 2003. Performances by Fleta Hylton, soprano; Byron Jones, tenor; Christopher Flint, bass; and Jon Kalbfleisch, piano.

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Digital imaging information:

• Images from the National Air and Space Museum Archives provided in JPG format. All images from the Archives are courtesy of the NASM Archives.
• Original images from Smithsonian Libraries' collections captured at 300 dpi using a Betterlight Scanback Super6K.
• Images stored as TIFFs. High resolution web images reduced to 96 dpi and rescaled to 750 pixels on the long side.