Description given with photo: "Hercules Fuselage Leaves Hangar, Calver City, Calif. - The hull of Howard Hughes' huge cargo flying boat, the Hercules, largest airplane in the world leaves hangar in the Culver City, Calif., plant to begin a 28-mile trip to Terminal Island, Calif., by truck and dolly. the 220-foot long hull-fuselage will follow the path of the wing sections to the graving dock where the air giant will be assembled. Credit Line (ACME) 6/16/46."
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Stamped on verso: "Official United States Air Force Photograph - Anderson AFB Washington 25, D.C."
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."
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Stamped on verso: "Las Vegas News Bureau - Las Vegas, Nevada Convention Center - Photographers Don English, Joe Buck, Jerry Abbott, Milt Palmer". Stamped on verso: "Southern Nevada Industrial Foundation, INC. 400 Stewart Ave. - P.O. Box 1688 Las Vegas, Nevada" Howard W. Cannon and Alan Bible (2nd and 3rd from left), Gov. Grant Sawyer (2nd from right)