Description given with photo: "Power Lines Removed for Giant Flying Boat Hawthorne, Calif. -- Pacific Electric workers remove power lines in the way of Howard Hughes' 220-foot-long Flying Boat fuselage as it inches its way as Hawthorne, Calif., enroute to plane assembly as Terminal Island, Calif. The gigantic hull requires highway clearance of 40 feet. NY Credit (ACME) 6/16/46."
Description given with photo: "Giant Wing Nears End of Journey, Long Beach, Calif. -- Traveling at a snails pace of 2 1/2 miles per hour, hauling truck slowly pulls a wing of Howard Hughes' mammoth plane across a pontoon bridge in the Tideland Oil fields. Almost half the tremendous job of transporting the $200,000,000 flying boat to its destination has been completed. Credit (ACME). 6-14-46."
A section of Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" or "Flying Boat" being moved (with a police escort) from the Hughes Aircraft plant in Culver City, California to Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor where the plane was assembled in June of 1946.
The up close view of Howard Hughes being escorted through a crowd of people at Floyd Bennett Airfield in New York. Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "Escorted through crowd- 7/14/38 (Daily News)"