Transcribed press release from back of photograph: "Howard Hughes' flying boat, world's largest plane, rides free off Terminal Island in Los Angeles Harbor immediately after its launching yesterday. The plane's vertical stabilizer tip rides about 80 feet above the water as the air giant floats for the first time. With Hughes at the controls, the colossal craft will get first water taxi tests today."
The interior view of the Special Collections Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). From left to right: Anna Dean Kepper, curator, and Sam, a student worker.
L-R: Harold Erickson, Director of Library Development; Mary Low Williams, sister of the late Nanelia Doughty; Norton Williams. The occasion is donation of papers of the late Nan Doughty to UNLV Special Collections.
From left to right: Elton Garrett, Hal Erickson, Virginia Fenton, Connie Degerness, and Dr. Robert Davenport in the Special Collections Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). They are examining the Manis Collection of photographs.