From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Stamped on verso: "Released by: Office of Information Air Force Flight Test Center Edwards Air Force Base Edwards, California".
Portrait of North Las Vegas Mayor Earl Hartke (right) meeting with U.S. Senator from Nevada Howard Cannon (center) and an unidentified woman in Washington, D.C.
Description given with photo: "Surprise To Everyone - San Pedro, Calif. : Millionaire planemaker Howard Hughes is surrounded by members of the press after successfully taking his 200-ton flying boat into the air in a surprise flight during initial taxi tests in Los Angeles harbor. Credit (ACME) 11/5/47."
Standing from left to right are John D. Home (Department of Communications of the American Legion), Howard Hughes (Managing Director of Production of RKO), and Edward Underwood (Department of Communications of Hollywood American Legion Motion Picture Post #43), in the late 1950s.
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Original photograph taken on October 29, 1944 after they escaped following getting shot down in the Netherlands: photographic print
The black and white view of a crowd of people gathering to greet Howard Hughes at Floyd Bennett Field Airport in New York. Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "HH-101 NY-101. Here are thousands who greeted Howard Hughes and his crew after completing Round the World Flight at Bennett Field Airport. 7-14-38 (Press Association)."