From the Fedora Bontempi Simpkin Photograph Collection (PH-00239). Senator Howard W. Cannon congratulates representatives of the Clark County Mother of the year Awards Celebration Committee for their work the past 11 years in honoring the mothers of Clark County. From left to right is Fedora Bontempi Simpkin, Chairman/Coordinator, Edythe Katz, Senator Cannon, Shirley Leavitt, and Sara Denton. (Photo by Tom Garanflo 1979).
Lily Pons (left) and Howard Hughes (right). Text printed on an attached strip of paper: "Noted flier and his hostess at cocktail party Los Angeles, Cal. -- Howard Hughes, noted flier, with Lily Pons, singing star, as he attended the cocktail party given by Miss Pons at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Credit Line (ACME) 11/8/38 NY LOND PAR."
The black and white view of the Lockheed 14 aircraft preparing for a part of Howard Hughes' Around the World flight. Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "Howard Hughes world flight plane in S. Paul, Minn., for 33-minute stop before last leg of flight back to New York."
Howard Hughes talking with an engineer at the rear of the flight deck of Hughes Flying Boat at Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor (now known as Long Beach).