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Marker and Monument at Base and Top of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina Marking Site of First Successful Airplane Flight by the Wright Brothers

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Title	Marker and Monument at Base and Top of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina Marking Site of First Successful Airplane Flight by the Wright Brothers
Caption	This granite boulder, weighing 10 tons, bears the following inscription on a bronze plaque: "The first successful flight of an airplane was made from this spot by Orville Wright on December 17, 1903, in a machine designed and built by Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright. This tablet was erected by the National Aeronautical Association of the U.S.A. to commemorate the 25th anniversary of this event."
Publisher	Asheville Post Card Co., Asheville, N.C.
Subject (tgm)	Historic sites Monuments Historical markers
Subject Topical	Postcards--North Carolina.
Subject Geographic	Kill Devil Hills (N.C.) Dare County (N.C.) Bodie Island (N.C.) Wright Brothers National Memorial (N.C.)
DCMI Type	Image
Form General	Postcards
Language	English
Medium of Original	Paper
Collection in Repository	North Carolina Postcard Collection (P052); collection guide online at http://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/P0052/
Local Identifier	P052;028-0209
Citation	"[Postcard title]" in North Carolina Postcard Collection (P052), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Digital Collection	North Carolina Postcards
Repository	North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Host	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Copyright	Copyright Status Unknown
filename	P052-028-0209.tif
Verify	No Date

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