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Childhood Portraits

Wilbur Wright
Orville Wright
Wilbur Wright
Orville Wright

Photographs of Wilbur Wright at age thirteen, circa 1879, and Orville Wright at age ten, circa 1880. As a child, Wilbur was quiet and shy but was also very sure of himself. Orville was a good student and won praise for his penmanship and reading abilities.



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