Transcribed from attached press release: "HUGHES ROCK BIT TEST In a block-long laboratory at Houston, Texas, the Hughes Tool Company can simulate oil drilling conditions anywhere in the world. Here a Hughes bit is tested on a hard formation. Howard Hughes' father invented the rock bit in 1908 and the resulting business became the cornerstone on which Howard Hughes built his fabulous industrial empire in motion pictures, air transportation, aeronautical research and design, aircraft manufacture, electronics, armament and brewing."

Transcribed from attached press release: "DRILLING LABORATORY The fundamental purpose of all Hughes rock bit research is to improve bit performance. In attaining this improvement it is necessary to balance design with the application of correct metallurgical materials and manufacturing methods. The preliminary proving ground is the Drilling laboratory housed in the main Laboratory building. Its field-size drilling rig, with 118 ft. derrick, was especially designed to test rock bits in a manner simulating oilfield drilling conditions."

Costume Details: Black and white Spanish flamenco female dancer costume with oversized black ruffled sleeves, a white net top, black ruffles at the knees, white boots, and a black brimmed hat, shown front and back.

Costume Details: Reclining nude showgirl with lorgnette, white boa with white foxtails trimmed with red ribbons, red bow on her head; piles of books in background. [Signed by artist]
Show Name: Pony Express
Site Name: Sahara Hotel and Casino

The Bluebells dance troupe poses on the steps of a Pan Am jet plane as they arrive in Las Vegas to open the new Lido de Paris show at the Stardust Hotel. Other members of the Bluebells pose with Margaret Kelly ("Madame Bluebell") and Lido owner/producer Pierre-Louis Guérin on the tarmac below the plane. All are dressed in street clothes and some are holding small carry-on bags.
Show Name: Lido de Paris (Las Vegas, Nev.)

From left to right, Governor Frank Merrian, Howard Hughes, and Mayor Frank L. Shaw riding in a car in a parade on 5th Street in Los Angeles in 1938.

Howard Hughes getting out of cabin door of Lockheed-14 at the Floyd Bennett Airport in New York in 1938.