From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). The B-58 Hustler was the world's first supersonic bomber. It was one of the many first line Air Force planes inspected by Senator Cannon.
From the Fedora Bontempi Simpkin Photograph Collection (PH-00239). Senator Howard W. Cannon congratulates representatives of the Clark County Mother of the year Awards Celebration Committee for their work the past 11 years in honoring the mothers of Clark County. From left to right is Fedora Bontempi Simpkin, Chairman/Coordinator, Edythe Katz, Senator Cannon, Shirley Leavitt, and Sara Denton. (Photo by Tom Garanflo 1979).
Trascribed from attached press release: " Howard Hughes (wearing hat) talks over details of tomorrow's initial taxi testing of his 24,000 horsepower flying boat, Nov. 1, 1947." Hughes is standing between Chal Bowen(?) (left) and Gale J. Moore (right).
Howard Hughes talking with an engineer at the rear of the flight deck of Hughes Flying Boat at Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor (now known as Long Beach).
A view of the controls of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat in Long Beach, California. Howard Hughes (right) is standing next to an unidentified man (probably a mechanic, left).