![Image of : Taft, William Howard (President); Wright, Katharine; Wright, Orville; Wright, Wilbur; Hawley, Alan R.; McCoy, James Comly; Forbes, A. Holland; Edwards, Charles Jerome. [photograph]](https://airandspace.si.edu/sites/default/files/images/collection-objects/record-images/NASM-SI-2003-12098.jpg "Taft, William Howard (President); Wright, Katharine; Wright, Orville; Wright, Wilbur; Hawley, Alan R.; McCoy, James Comly; Forbes, A. Holland; Edwards, Charles Jerome. [photograph]")
Display Status:
This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.
Collection Item Summary:
Following a ceremony at the White House, Washington, D.C., on June 10, 1909, to present Aero Club of America gold medals to the Wright Brothers, U.S. President William Howard Taft (center) poses on the portico with group (left to right): Assistant Secretary of War Robert Shaw Oliver, Alan R. Hawley, James C. McCoy, A. Holland Forbes, Wilbur Wright, Taft, Orville Wright, Katharine Wright, Congressman Herbert Parsons (R-NY), Charles Jerome Edwards, unidentified.
Collection Item Long Description:
Topic
Aeronautics
Data Source
National Air and Space Museum Archives
Restrictions & Rights
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photographer
Unknown
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Date
June 10, 1909
Repository Loc.
National Air and Space Museum, Archives Division, MRC 322, Washington, DC, 20560
Type
Photographs
Local number
NASM-A-38831
