Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: Attending the Advertising Club Luncheon in his honor, Howard Hughes is shown with (left to right) Eddie Rickenbacher, Frank Hawks, H. B. Lequattes, and Dick Merrill.
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Stamped on verso: "Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph Combat Information Bureau No. 111 Marine Amphibious Force, BMF FPO San Francisco, Calif. 98601"