Press Release attached to photo: "HUGHES HERCULES READY FOR TESTS. LONG BEACH, CAL. An aerial view shows Howard Hughes' giant plywood seaplane Hercules ready for taxi tests at Long Beach. The initial flight of the plane, which cost $20,000,000 and will seat 700 persons, will not be attempted until early in 1947. ACME 10/13/46." Los Angeles Harbor, Terminal Island are now known as Long Beach.
A section of Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" or "Flying Boat" being moved (with a police escort) from the Hughes Aircraft plant in Culver City, California to Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor where the plane was assembled in June of 1946.
Dorothy Bell Scans UNLV-Public Lands Institute. Left to right: Rex Anthony Bell, Jr (Toni Larbow Beldam), Morris (Moe) De Chambeau, Fred Strasnider, George Harding, Guy Rasmussen on July 4, 1964. Handwritten on back of image:"July 4, 1964. Rex Bell, Jr., Morris (Moe) De Chambeau, Fred Strasnider, George Harding, Guy Rasmussen."
An image of children gathered together, possibly for the 4th of July at City Hall in Boulder City, Nevada. The children are dressed in pointed hats with ribbons tied around their torsos.