The black and white view of members of the Aeronautical Association awaiting the arrival of Howard Hughes and his Lockheed 12 aircraft at the Floyd Bennett Airport in New York. Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Official timers of Aeronautical Association compare their precision chronometers as Lockheed-14 roars overhead, marking end of Round-the-World flight at Floyd Bennett Airport." Typed onto a second piece of paper also attached to the image: "Official timers of the Aeronautical Association shown at Floyd Bennett Field comparing their precision chronometers as Howard Hughes' plane roared overhead marking the end of his Flight Around The World. July 1938."

29 x 36 cm. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1855 by J.H. Colton & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the Dist. Office of the U.S. for the Southern. Dist. of New York." Hand colored. Decorative border. Atlas p. number in lower-right margin: 67. Shows routes of explorers, proposed railroad routes, wagon route, mail route, Indian reserves and mines. On verso: History and statistical view of Mexico. Original publisher: J.H. Colton.

'Johnson's California, also Utah, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, published by A.J. Johnson, New York.' 'Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1864, by A.J. Johnson in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.' Atlas page numbers in upper margin: 66-67. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington, D.C. Shows proposed railroads, locations of Indian tribes, natural features, counties, mines, mail routes, trails and routes of exploring expeditions. On verso: History and statistics of Mexico and Central America and statistics of national finances and the Post Office of the United States, 1860. Scale [ca. 1:3,484,800. 1 in. to ca. 55 miles] (W 123°--W 103°/N 42°--N 32°)