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"
Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "Howard Hughes is appointed Aeronautic Adviser to the New York Worlds Fair 1939 by Grover Whalen, its president."
Howard Hughes (second from left) standing in front of the experimental helicopter XH-17, Flying Crane, with others (from left to right): Rea Hopper, Director of the Aeronautical Division, Hughes Aircraft Company; Hughes; Clyde Jones, Director of Engineering, Hughes Tool Company Aeronautical Division; Warren Reed, Assistant; Colonel Carl E. Jackson from Air Research and Development Headquarters, Baltimore; Gale J. Moore, Pilot; possibly Chal Bowen, Flight Engineer/Co-pilot; and an unidentified man, October 23, 1952.
Howard Hughes leaving his private hangar as he is wished "happy landings" and well wishes by friends before he boards his speedy Lockheed plane at Union Air Terminal in Burbank, California.
Signing of contracts for Lake Mead water pipeline at the Las Vegas City Hall. Sitting in the top row from left to right: unidentified individual, Arleigh West, Bureu of Reclamation, Oran Gragson, Mayor of Las Vegas, Paul Laxalt, Governor of Nevada, Robert Griffith, Chairman Colorado River Commission, William Taylor, Mayor of North Las Vegas, Leonard Fayle, President of Las Vegas Valley Water District, Mr. Hampton, Mayor of Henderson, Robert Broadbent, Mayor of Boulder City. Site Name: Clark County Court House, Las Vegas (Nev.)
From left to right: a picture of John Walsh, Joe Cunningham, Dante Vespignani, Milt Wiers, John Fadgen, Mayor William Taylor (light jacket), Councilman Jack Petitti (second from right), Pete Green, Joe Mindyas, and James Johnson at a ribbon cutting ceremony in North Las Vegas City Hall.
Typed onto a piece of paper given with the image: "Hughes' Plane Over Los Angeles, Cal. -- The world-girdling plane of Howard Hughes pictured from an American Airlines plane as it flew over Los Angeles as Hughes and four companions on the record-breaking flight arrive at Los Angeles for the ovation accorded them by proud Southern Californians. The Los Angeles City Hall is in the background. Credit Line (ACME) 8/2/38 NY