Description given with photo: "Surprise To Everyone - San Pedro, Calif. : Millionaire planemaker Howard Hughes is surrounded by members of the press after successfully taking his 200-ton flying boat into the air in a surprise flight during initial taxi tests in Los Angeles harbor. Credit (ACME) 11/5/47."
Standing from left to right are John D. Home (Department of Communications of the American Legion), Howard Hughes (Managing Director of Production of RKO), and Edward Underwood (Department of Communications of Hollywood American Legion Motion Picture Post #43), in the late 1950s.
Members of the Rockwell family on the Chemung River near Elmira, New York. Leon Rockwell sits in a rowboat as two women step into the boat. Two boys with a rowboat are seen in the background. Handwritten on back of photograph: "Mother, Aunt Jessie; Floyd and Earl; myself 1902."