Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Howard Hughes and his crew welcomed at the City Hall, New York, after their Round the World flight. July 1938."
The black and white view of Howard Hughes and his crew being surrounded by crowds as they exit the Lockheed 14 aircraft after finishing the Around the World flight at Floyd Bennett Airfield in New York. Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "Hughes reception at Floyd Bennett Field 7/14/38 (Press Association"