Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Howard Hughes is welcomed by New York on return from Round the World flight. Grover Whalen is on the left. 7/15/38."

Howard Hughes sitting at long table with several unidentified people at a banquet dedicated to him in Texas.

Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "Howard Hughes and his crew of globe girdlers (L-to-R) Thomas Thurlow, Ed Lund, Albert Lodwick, Hughes, Harry Connor and Dick Stoddart. 8-1-38. (Press Association)." Howard Hughes is standing third from right.

The up close view of Howard Hughes and other inside City Hall in New York City, New York.

Description printed on accompanying strip of paper: "Howard Hughes after arriving in Paris on his first stop of a round-the-world flight. 7-11-38"

Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "New York Hails Hughes and His Companions, New York City - In the greatest reception since Lindbergh's, Howard Hughes and his four gallant companions paraded up Broadway July 15 almost smothered beneath New York's ticker tape accolade recognizing their record-smashing Round-The-World dash. This picture shows Hughes at City Hall as he paused only long enough for a glass of water. At right is his fellow Texan, Jesse Johes, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Credit Line (ACME) 7-15-38."

Description printed on back of photograph: "Night scene at Le Bouget Field before Howard Hughes took off for Moscow."