A view of Los Angeles Mayor Frank L. Shaw, Howard Hughes, and California Governor Frank Merriam (left to right) dining together at a banquet for Howard Hughes in Los Angeles, California.
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Handwritten on verso: "Left to Right: Pat Goodall (Pres of UNLV); Caesar Caviglia (V.P. CCCC Advisory Board); Bucky Buchanon (Regent); Judith S. Eaton (President CCCC); Howard Cannon; Robert Cashall (Pres, Bd. og Regents); Robert Bersi (Chancellor)." Clark County Community College commencement exercises.
Description printed on accompanying strip of paper: "Howard Hughes reading maps and studying his way in the meteorological office at the Le Bourget. July 1938"
The street view of a parade held for Howard Hughes in Chicago. Hughes can be seen sitting in the first black car in line, wearing a white outfit as he waves to the surrounding crowd.
Press release describes Army Air Forces circling over Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles to salute Howard Hughes, who was recovering the from the crash of his XF-11 aircraft. Contains texts of telegrams to Hughes from Army Air Forces Commanding General Carl Spaatz and Twelfth Air Force Brigadier General John P. Doyle.