Description provided with image: "Temporary customs operation set up at Hughes Executive Terminal in Las Vegas In San Francisco by Scandinavian Airlines to process foreign passengers from 128 countries, here to attend the American Mining Congress. Las Vegas was designated an International Port of Entry in 1972.
Hughes' plane landing after historic flight. Inscription with image reads: "Hughes Racer landing at Newark Airport after breaking coast-to-coast record 27 sec. - distance 2490 mi. - average speed 332 mph. (This bettered his previous record by 2 hours.) Newark, New Jersey."
From the Elizabeth Harrington Photograph Collection (PH-00291). Inscription with image reads: "Temporary hospital and the first in Las Vegas erected by the Railroad Company in late 1904, on the site occupied to-day by the Union Plaza Hotel. Tall man to the left is Dr. Halle Hewetson."