Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Howard Hughes is welcomed by New York on return from Round the World flight. Grover Whalen is on the left. 7/15/38."
Black and white image of the Boulder City Library, then located in the basement of the city's municipal building. Reference books, a card catalog, and a children's display are all visible.
Description provided with image: "Boulder City School Board. L-R: Don McCormick, (?), Elbert Edwards, Ray Collins, and H. O. Watts in Boulder City, Nevada 1948."