39 x 62 cm. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Prime meridian: Greenwich and Washington. Hand colored. Shows natural features, populated places, routes of mail steamships, routes of explorers, locations of Indian tribes, railroad routes, and proposed railroad routes. In top margin: No. 80-81. On verso: New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Dakota (statistics and other information) and The state of California (statistics and other information). Original publisher: G.W. and C.B. Colton.
Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Howard Hughes and his crew arriving at the City Hall after their Round-The-World flight. July 1938."
Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "Hughes waves to cheering million. New York City--- Clean-shaven once more, Howard Hughes smiles his gratitude to the millions of New Yorkers who showered him with ticker-tape and torn paper--New York's own accolade, as paraded up Broadway, followed by his companions in the carbehind in the greatest reception since Lindbergh's. On the left is Grover Whalen, head of the New York World's Fair, 1939, and on the right, Al Lodwick, manager of the round-the-world record smashing flight. Credit Line (ACME) 7/15/38."
The black and white view of Howard Hughes and his crew at a parade after he completed his Round-The-World flight in New York. Handwritten on the back of the image: "B' way parade temporarily blocked by fire engines answering false alarm. 7/15/38."
The view of a parade being held in celebration of Howard Hughes' completion of his Around the World flight in New York City, New York. Howard Hughes can be seen sitting in the car to the left of the unnamed man in the white suit.
'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: 67-68. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Greenwich and Washington. Shows natural features, locations of Indian tribes, proposed railroad routes, routes of explorers, trails, county boundaries and populated places. Hand colored. On verso: 'Historical and statistical view of the West India Islands or Columbian Archipelago' (p. 80) and 'Historical and statistical view of Mexico and Central America' (p. 79). Scale [ca. 1:3,484,800]. 1 in. to ca. 55 miles (W 124°--W 102°/N 42°--N 32°).
Howard Hughes sitting inside the Lockheed 14 aircraft in New York. Typed on a piece of paper attached to the image: "Hughes' Paris hop delayed by motor trouble. New York City-- Howard Hughes, millionaire oil man and speed flyer, in the cabin of his huge Lockheed plane as he waited impatiently for a crew of mechanics to repair one of the motors so that he could take off for Paris. He was forced to give up his plans to leave on July 9th when mechanics found that it would be impossible to change the 18 cylinders of his motors in time. Crews worked all night at the job. Rough spots were found in the cylinders during fuel consumption tests. Credit Line (ACME) 7/10/38 Burs SF."