Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "As Hughes Visited Washington To Thank Cordell Hull, Washing, D. C. -- Police escorting Howard Hughes holding hat, through the admiring throungs at the Washington Airport as the intrepid flyer and his four companions on his Round-The-World flight came to the Capital, July 21st, to personally thank Secretary of State Cordell Hull for his cooperation in clearing their take-offs on their flight. Credit Line (ACME) 7/21/38."
An overhead view of trees and buildings in Boulder City, Nevada; Boulder Dam Hotel, located at 1305 Arizona Street, can be seen in the background across the road from a building sign advertising "free Boulder Dam motion pictures."
Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "Gen. view parade: As globe fliers braved Broadway blizzard, New York. Although they didn't encounter a single snowflake on their roaring dash across Siberia, Howard Hughes and his four-man crew met a regular blizzard (of Broadway ticker tape) today as New York paid them homage as only New York know how. This is a view of the scene as the triumphal procession proceeded from the Battery to City Call. In the car are (left to right) Grover Whalen, President of the New York World's Fair, Howard Hughes and Al Lodwick, his press representative. (w) 7-15-38.30."
The black and white view of a crowd of people surrounding the Lockheed 14 aircraft at the Le Bourget Airfield in France. Text printed on accompanying strip of paper: "Howard Hughes' Lockheed surrounded by a great crowd at Le Bourget Field, Paris, as his crew disembarked after their flight from New York. July 1938."
A photograph of Tom Godbey prepared by the "Boulder City News" for an article titled, "Jaycees Fete Tom Godbey Outstanding Vet Father" Wednesday June 19, 1946. The photograph is wrapped in paper, so only Tom Godbey's portrait is showing. The original image also has an unidentified woman in it. The paper has the following writing on it: "one zinc halftone, 85 screen, 12 pixels wide, mounted flush on sides Boulder City News Bob Carter". The corresponding Boulder City News article from Wednesday June 19, 1946 is included with the image.