Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: "Howard Hughes' plane heavily guarded leaves hangar at Le Bourget Field, Paris, for the hop to Moscow."
The black and white view of Howard Hughes, surrounded by crowds, after landing his Lockheed 14 aircraft for the Around the World flight at Floyd Bennett Airfield in New York. Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "Howard Hughes at Floyd Bennett Field after completing a round the world flight. 7-14-38 (Press Association)."