The view of a crowd of people watch Howard Hughes walk through Floyd Bennett Airfield in New York. Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "A scene at Floyd Bennett Field as Howard Hughes and his crew landed after completing a round the world hop. 7-14-38 (Press Association)."

A black and white aerial view of the Hoover Dam Project area before the construction started. Written on the photo is: "Boulder City, Hoover Dam Project near Las Vegas, Nevada. Oakes #175."

Howard Hughes (center) studying diagrams for the Flying Boat with two unidentified men.

An image of the Visitors Bureau located on Arizona Street in Boulder City at night. Text across the white sign mounted on the front of the building: "Free Movies Building Of The Dam."

From the UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection (PH-00171). L-R: unidentified; Art Olson, Clark County Commissioner; Harold Corbin, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Boulder City Manager; Dr. Henry J. Reining, Dean of the College of Administration, USC at Los Angeles; Albert Franklin, Boulder City Councilman; Bob Broadbent, Boulder City Mayor; Dr. Thomas S. White, Boulder City Councilman; Grant Sawyer, Governor of Nevada; William Byrne, Henderson, Nevada mayor; Morgan J. Sweeney, Boulder City Councilman; Arleigh West, Acting Regional Director, Bureau of Reclamation at Boulder City; Joe Manix, Boulder City Councilman; N.E. Broadbent, Mayor of Ely, Nevada; B. Mahlon Brown, Nevada state senator; Harley Harmon, Clark County Commission Chairman; Jake Dieleman, Nevada state assemblyman.

Howard Hughes beside his Douglas DC-3 in New York in 1947.