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English: Wilbur and Orville Wright with William H. Taft and other notables. 9.25" x 7" photograph taken at the White House on June 10, 1909 on the occasion of the brothers receiving medals from the Aero Club of America. Other notables pictured and signing include: sister Katherine Wright; pioneering aviator and publisher A. Holland Forbes; aviator Alan R. Hawley; automotive pioneer Charles Jerome Edwards, and Assistant Secretary of War Robert Shaw Oliver. From the Estate of Malcolm S. Forbes.
  • Left to right: Robert Shaw Oliver; Alan Ramsay Hawley; unknown; unknown; Wilbur Wright; President William Howard Taft; Orville Wright; Katharine Wright; Herbert Parsons; unknown; unknown.
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