From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Hope Roberts (Reno, Nevada), Minnie Alderman (Ely, Nevada), Marian Elliott (Las Vegas, Nevada).
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). The group participate in the groundbreaking "New Research Facility for Edgerton, Germshausen and Grier - Airport Industrial Tract"
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."
Howard Hughes (right) and Earl Martyn inside of the HK-1, Hughes Flying Boat, which was near completion on Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor. The Hughes Flying Boat, also called the Spruce Goose, was the largest plane in the world.
Note: No year listed; Menu printed on envelope; red, white, and blue ribbon threaded through back flap of envelope Restaurant: Howland Hotel (Long Branch, N.J.) Location: Long Branch, New Jersey, United States