Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: "Howard Hughes in the cockpit of his plane. A few minutes before leaving Paris for Moscow on the second leg of his flight around the world. 7-12-38"
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Stamped on verso: "Official U.S. Air Force Photograph AFBMD HQ ARDC, Inglewood, Calif." Photo taken in front of the Air Research and Development Command building.
The black and white view of Howard Hughes sitting in the Northop Gamma Racer in New York. Text printed on a card included with the image: "Hughes sets new Miami-New York record Howard Hughes, Millionaire flier and pictured in the cockpit of his low-wing Northrop all-metal, plane, shortly after landing in New York, April 21st, 4 hours and 22 minutes after having taken off from Miami, Fla. He had beaten the record established by Jimmy Wedel in July 1933, by 36 minutes."