Black and white image of the Boulder City Library, then located in the basement of the city's municipal building. Reference books, a card catalog, and a children's display are all visible.
Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: "Howard Hughes speaking into a mike at Paris before leaving for Moscow on the second leg of his round the world flight 7-12-1938"
Description provided with image: "Boulder City School Board. L-R: Don McCormick, (?), Elbert Edwards, Ray Collins, and H. O. Watts in Boulder City, Nevada 1948."
The hull of the $20,000,000 airplane, also known as the Flying Boat or Spruce Goose, being transferred from Culver City to Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor. The Flying Boat was moved to Terminal Island's graving dock where construction was completed in June of 1947.