Howard Hughes in the Lockheed 14. Typed on a piece of paper attached to the image: "As Howard Hughes took off from Coast for flight east. Los Angeles, California-- The huge Lockheed "Flying Laboratory" of Howard Hughes, millionaire oil man and speed flyer, taking off from here for the flight to New York, from where he will take off for Paris. Credit Line (ACME) 7/4/1938."
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."