Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "Group at [Gover] Whalen's home 7/14/38. (Daily News)." Howard Hughes is standing third from the left.
Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "Group at [Gover] Whalen's home 7/14/38. (Daily News)." Howard Hughes is standing fourth from the left.
John Batchelor posing with others in Boulder City, Nevada. The caption provided with the image reads: "Mayor John Batchelor of Boulder City (center) expresses Boulder City's hopes for Proton Accelerator for Eldorado Valley to Dr. Rodney L. Cool, Associated Director, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Herbert E. Grier, President, Southern Nevada Industrial Foundation, who recently visited the proposed sites adjacent to Boulder City for the benefit of the Atomic Energy Commission. Mayor Batchelor and Boulder City delegation accompanied the team of five and officials of Southern Nevada Industrial Foundation, E.G. & G. and other agencies seeking placing of the $300 million project in this area. This picture was taken at the proposed site in Eldorado Valley just before the five experts boarded the plane with Pat Head of the Colorado River Commission to complete their reconnaissance."
The black and white view of Howard Hughes surrounded by unidentified people at the Chicago Municipal Airport. Printed on a paper included with the photograph: "Millionaire Speed King. Howard Hughes, Multimillionaire movie producer and speed flyer, at the Chicago Municipal Airport preparing for a flight to Los Angeles, Calif., in which he hopes to set a new speed record. Credit Line (ACME) 5/14/36."
Howard Hughes in the Lockheed 14. Typed on a piece of paper attached to the image: "As Howard Hughes took off from Coast for flight east. Los Angeles, California-- The huge Lockheed "Flying Laboratory" of Howard Hughes, millionaire oil man and speed flyer, taking off from here for the flight to New York, from where he will take off for Paris. Credit Line (ACME) 7/4/1938."