The black and white view of a crowd of people, possibly including reporters and members of the press, standing atop a tower as they wait for the arrival of Howard Hughes in his Lockheed 14 aircraft at Floyd Bennett Airport, New York. This final landing for Hughes marked the end of his Round The World flight.
A biography of musician David Houston written by Epic Records in New York and given to the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada for the Epic Records National Sales Convention. This three-page biography examines Houston's early start at the age of twelve when he stared on the famed radio program ""Louisiana Hayride"" to a list of his current country music hit sincles and albums.
The black and white view of members of the Aeronautical Association awaiting the arrival of Howard Hughes and his Lockheed 12 aircraft at the Floyd Bennett Airport in New York. Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Official timers of Aeronautical Association compare their precision chronometers as Lockheed-14 roars overhead, marking end of Round-the-World flight at Floyd Bennett Airport." Typed onto a second piece of paper also attached to the image: "Official timers of the Aeronautical Association shown at Floyd Bennett Field comparing their precision chronometers as Howard Hughes' plane roared overhead marking the end of his Flight Around The World. July 1938."
The marquee reads: "From the blistering best-seller, Josephine E Levine presents: Carroll Baker as 'Harlow,' Red Buttons, Martin Balsam, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford; Now, Guild Theatre, P. Sellers, P. O'Toole, What's New Pussycat." Site Name: Fremont Theatre (Las Vegas, Nev.)
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). The group participate in the groundbreaking "New Research Facility for Edgerton, Germshausen and Grier - Airport Industrial Tract"