The black and white, aerial view of Howard Hughes' Lockheed 14 aircraft performing its final landing on the Round the World flight at Floyd Bennett Airport, New York. Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Journey's End for World Fliers! Floyd Bennett Airport, N. Y. ---- The "World's Fair 1939.," Howard Hughes' silver monoplane, shown on the ground just after it landed here, concluding an amazing globe-girdling flight in total elapsed time of 3 days, 19 hours, 10 seconds. A crowd of officials surround the plane. Credit Line (ACME) 7/14/38."
Original publisher: Rand, McNally & Co. Scale [ca. 1:1,203,840). 1 inch to 19 miles. Originally published as p. 316-317 of Rand McNally's commercial atlas of America. Title in right margin: Nevada : commercial atlas of America. Includes township and range grid. Includes index to Nevada railroads and index to principal cities with their populations. Index on verso to counties, towns and natural features in Oregon and Nevada.
Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Howard Hughes and his four companions honored at the National Press Club. Howard Hughes is speaking, with Mayor La Guardia and Secretary of State Cordell Hull at lower right. July 1938."