A group photo of Howard family women. Handwritten description provided on stock card: "L-R: 1) Jessie Pearl Howard Johnson Manor; 2) Nancy Howard Copley; 3) Ollie Howard Lohr; 4) Mary Josephine (Baxter) Howard (seated). Photo probably taken in Oregon, ca. 1906." Additional information handwritten on a separate piece of paper: "1) Jessie Pearl Howard Johnson Manor; 2) Nancy Howard Copley (center standing); 3) Ollie Howard Lohr; 4) Mary Josephine (Baxter) Howard, seated. Aunt Nancy was about 5'7", very tall in our family. Grandmother Mary Josephine was only 4'10" and my mother Jessie Pearl was barely 5' tall. Aunt Ollie was about 5'2". Probably had Jessie and Ollie on boxes. Photo probably taken in Oregon. Jessie probably 14 or 15 when photo taken because family left Ore. when she was about 16 yrs. old. Mother born 1892 so picture ca 1906."
Description given with photo: "Hughes Alone As Probers Recess Till Fall, Washington, D.C. - Plane builder Howard Hughes, above, sat alone in the normally jam-packed senate caucus room today after war investigating sub-committee chairman Homer Ferguson, (R) of Mich., announced that because of the disappearance of press agent John W. Meyer, the Hughes war contract investigation has been recessed until November 17, 1947. Hughes, shown checking his private papers, wrathfully termed the postponement action by the sub-committee chairman as "ridiculous." -INP Photo by A.E. Scott- 8/11/47."
The black and white view of Hiram "Tommy" Thurlow and the Lockheed 14 aircraft in New York, New York. Typed on a piece of paper attached to the image: "Readying Hughes' plane for Paris flight. New York City-- Mechanics hastened to put Howard Hughes' Lockheed 14 monoplane in shape for a flight from Floyd Bennett Airport here, to Paris. Motor trouble forced postponement and helpers were working under injunction to have the ship ready for a takeoff "at the earliest possible moment," July 9. Photo shows: Lieut, Thomas A. Thurlow, navigator, calibrating compass on plane. Credit Line (ACME) 7/9/1938."