Description given with photograph: "4th July - 1908 - speakers stand front Salt Lake RR Freight Depot." Another description given by Dave Coons: "Fourth of July, 1908 at SP, LA, & SL Freight Station, Las Vegas."
Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: "Next stop-- Moscow! Le Bourget, France---- After making minor repairs, Howard Hughes and his companions took off from Le Bourget, to complete their record-smashing circuit of the globe in 3 days and 19 hours. The photo shows the Hughes plane, 'World's Fair, 1939,' propellers whirling, just before the takeoff for Moscow, second leg of the world flight."