A view of (from left to right) Los Angeles Mayor Frank L. Shaw, Howard Hughes, Will Hays, and California Governor Frank Merriam posing together for pictures at a banquet held for Howard Hughes in the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
Lily Pons (left) and Howard Hughes (right). Text printed on an attached strip of paper: "Noted flier and his hostess at cocktail party Los Angeles, Cal. -- Howard Hughes, noted flier, with Lily Pons, singing star, as he attended the cocktail party given by Miss Pons at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Credit Line (ACME) 11/8/38 NY LOND PAR."
Trascribed from attached press release: " Howard Hughes (wearing hat) talks over details of tomorrow's initial taxi testing of his 24,000 horsepower flying boat, Nov. 1, 1947." Hughes is standing between Chal Bowen(?) (left) and Gale J. Moore (right).
From the Fedora Bontempi Simpkin Photograph Collection (PH-00239). Senator Howard W. Cannon congratulates representatives of the Clark County Mother of the year Awards Celebration Committee for their work the past 11 years in honoring the mothers of Clark County. From left to right is Fedora Bontempi Simpkin, Chairman/Coordinator, Edythe Katz, Senator Cannon, Shirley Leavitt, and Sara Denton. (Photo by Tom Garanflo 1979).