The black and white, aerial view of Howard Hughes' Lockheed 14 aircraft performing its final landing on the Round the World flight at Floyd Bennett Airport, New York. Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Journey's End for World Fliers! Floyd Bennett Airport, N. Y. ---- The "World's Fair 1939.," Howard Hughes' silver monoplane, shown on the ground just after it landed here, concluding an amazing globe-girdling flight in total elapsed time of 3 days, 19 hours, 10 seconds. A crowd of officials surround the plane. Credit Line (ACME) 7/14/38."
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."
Description given with photo: "Tired Hughes Returns Home, Culver City, Cal. : Rubbing his tired eyes, Howard Hughes talks with reporters at an informal press conference at his plant in Culver City after his return flight from Washington. He said the hearings in which he participated were fair, and said the press and public made it "Impossible for Brewster to continue his Gestapo methods". Credit (ACME) 8/15/47."
Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: "Hughes catches up with cables in Moscow. Moscow---Howard Hughes, sorting a packet of congratulatory cables on his arrival in Moscow. He was just beginning to sprout stubble with which he returned to New York, after his record-smashing round-the-world dash. 7/25/38"