Description given with photo: "Hughes Has Session With Senate Committee, Washington, D.C. -- Howard Hughes, right, who met with members of the Senate War Investigating Committee Feb. 11, is shown after the secret session with senators Carl A. hatch (D. - N.M.), Owen Brewster (R. - ME.), and William F. Knowland (R. Calif.), left to right. Committee chairman Brewster told reporters Hughes discovered certain war contracts of his were under investigation and "asked to appear to discuss them informally with the committee." Credit Line (ACME) 2/11/47."
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Stamped on verso: "Official photograph United States Air Force Air Force Flight Test Center Edwards Air Force Base, Calif."
The black and white view of Howard Hughes and his crew being surrounded by crowds as they exit the Lockheed 14 aircraft after finishing the Around the World flight at Floyd Bennett Airfield in New York. Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "Hughes reception at Floyd Bennett Field 7/14/38 (Press Association"
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) 8th Annual Convention at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino.
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) 8th Annual Convention at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino.
A section of Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" or "Flying Boat" being moved (with a police escort) from the Hughes Aircraft plant in Culver City, California to Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor where the plane was assembled in June of 1946.