Fourth of July celebration on the main street of Searchlight, Nevada. In the background is the "Brown Club" and "The Gem". Written on the photograph is "Searchlight July 5, '09."
The black and white view of the Lockheed plane is shown as it taxied to a stop at Le Bourget Airfield near Paris, after a record-shattering flight across the Atlantic.
Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Howard Hughes (second from left) surrounded by newspapermen in Los Angeles and telling them about his Round-The-World flight. 8/1/38. (Press Association)."