Note: Includes financial records of past balls, music program and a dancing engagement card with some signatures and with attached pencil. Program also states that the ball is "under the patronage of Count Francesco Bottaro-Costa, Chargé d'Affaires of H.M. The King of Italy." Menu insert: Dancing engagement cards; Music Programs; Event programs; Quotations Restaurant: The Monico Location: London, England
Howard Hughes sits in a chair in front of a film editing desk. Behind the desk are shelves holding various reels of film. A film editing machine is seen on the desk. This second image is nearly identical to the first, except Hughes has a mustache.
The black and white view of 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: "Rolling Howard Hughes' plane of hangar at Floyd Bennett Field, with Lt. Thomas Thurlow, one of the navigators, calibrating the compass."
Top view of the Hughes H-1 Racer with an X painted over its R registration number on its starboard wing. The registration number NX 258Y is seen on the rudder. The back of hte image has information about the record-breaking flight using this plane.
Description given with photo: "Hughes Writes Notes During Senate Hearing, Washington, D.C. --- With notes and manuscripts scattered at his feet, millionaire plane builder Howard Hughes is shown as he conferred with several of the witnesses who testified in his behalf at the Senate War Investigating Subcommittee hearing today. Credit (ACME Photo) 11/8/47."