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.
On February 23, 1977, collector Mark E. French interviewed local farmer, Francis E. Hughes (born March 9th, 1917 in Mesquite, Nevada) in his home in Mesquite, Nevada. This interview offers an overview of the general lifestyle and culture in Mesquite. Mr. Hughes mother, Orilla Leavitt, was born in Bunkerville, Nevada. Members of Mr. Hughes’s family were amongst the first settlers in the Mesquite area.
Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: "Hughes' Lockheed plane surrounded by police as it is taken out of the hangar at Le Bourget Field, Paris, for the flight to Moscow. July 1938"