The view of Howard Hughes being escorted through a crowd of attendees at the World's Fair in New York. Description printed on back of photograph: "Saving Hughes from hero-worshippers. New York - Howard Hughes surrounded by police as he was escorted from his monoplane shortly after landing Floyd Bennett Field. 7/14/38"
Description provided with image: "Boulder City School Board. L-R: Don McCormick, (?), Elbert Edwards, Ray Collins, and H. O. Watts in Boulder City, Nevada 1948."
Description given with photograph: "Howard Hughes in New York after making a high altitude flight from Los Angeles during which he tested a new two-ounce oxygen mask."
The hull of the $20,000,000 airplane, also known as the Flying Boat or Spruce Goose, being transferred from Culver City to Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor. The Flying Boat was moved to Terminal Island's graving dock where construction was completed in June of 1947.