Black and white image of a woman sitting in the librarian's office at the Boulder City Library, located in its new quarters on the top floor of the Municipal Building.
L-R: Rea Hopper, Director of the Aeronautical Division, Hughes Aircraft Company; Howard Hughes; Clyde Jones, Director of Engineering, Hughes Tool Company Aeronautical Division; Warren Reed, Assistant; Col. Carl E. Jackson, Air Research and Development Headquarters, Baltimore; Gale J. Moore, pilot; and unidentified pilot in front of the experimental helicopter XH-17 Flying Crane on October 23, 1952. This was one of Hughes' last public appearances.
Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: "Howard Hughes speaking into a mike at Paris before leaving for Moscow on the second leg of his round the world flight 7-12-1938"