Typed onto a piece of paper given with the image: "As Los Angeles Welcomed Howard Hughes Los Angeles, Cal. -- The crowd gathered around the world-circling plane of Howard Hughes in the hangar at the Grand Central Air Terminal as Hughes and his companions on his record-breaking world flight alighted from the plane to receive the welcome home of Southern California. Hughes put his plane down at the airport and taxied it into the hangar all before alighting with his companions. Credit Line (ACME) 8/2/38 NY."

From the Las Vegas City Commission Records (MS-00237). Index 2 of 2 of Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, 1911-1960. Materials were donated in 1980 and 1985 by Guy Rocha; accession numbers 1980-188 and 1985-088.

The grayscale view from an unidentified park of Boulder City, Nevada.

Description given with photo: "Before Surprise Flight, Long Beach, Calif.: No longer land-locked, Howard Hughes' 200-ton flying boat, world's largest plane, rides free in Los Angeles harbor after being floated for the first time. The builder and pilot later took the controversial plane into the air for a surprise one-mile flight during taxing trials. Credit (ACME) 11-3-47."

The view of Howard Hughes and his crew at a parade after he completed his Round-The-World flight in New York.

The black and white view of a crowd of people awaiting the arrival of Howard Hughes in his Lockheed 14 aircraft at Floyd Bennett Airport, New York. This final landing for Hughes marked the end of his Round The World flight.