Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "Hughes thanks State Department for Co-operation. Washington, D. C. -- Howard Hughes (left), with Jesse Hones (right), Chairman of the RFC, leaving the State Department here, July 21, after Hughes personally thanked Secretary of State Cordell hull for the cooperation of the State Department in clearing Hughes departure in the round-the-world record flight. Credit Line (ACEM) 7/21/38."
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Stamped on verso: "Las Vegas News Bureau - Las Vegas, Nevada Convention Center - Photographers Don English, Joe Buck, Jerry Abbott, Milt Palmer"