Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: "Hughes catches up with cables in Moscow. Moscow---Howard Hughes, sorting a packet of congratulatory cables on his arrival in Moscow. He was just beginning to sprout stubble with which he returned to New York, after his record-smashing round-the-world dash. 7/25/38"
An overhead view of trees and buildings in Boulder City, Nevada; Boulder Dam Hotel, located at 1305 Arizona Street, can be seen in the background across the road from a building sign advertising "free Boulder Dam motion pictures."