THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 3, 1937

• LZ 129 Hindenburg rigid airship
• Pride of Nazi Germany & Adolph Hitler
• Infamous trip to America beginning

Page 21 has a one column heading: "HINDENBURG OFF FOR U.S. TOMORROW" with subheads. (see images) 
Complete with all 40 pages, light toning, good condition.

Background: The departure of the LZ 129 Hindenburg from Frankfurt on May 3, 1937, marks a poignant threshold in aviation history, as it was the start of the luxury airship’s final, fateful transatlantic voyage. Representing the absolute pinnacle of lighter-than-air engineering as the largest flying object ever constructed, the Hindenburg was entering its second season of North American service after a highly successful 1936 campaign. Photographing or collecting ephemera from this specific departure carries immense historical rarity and weight; unlike the ubiquitous newsreel footage and iconic photojournalism of the May 6 catastrophe at Lakehurst, imagery and documents capturing the airship as it readied for flight on May 3 depict the vessel completely intact, serving as a rare "calm before the storm" contrast to its destruction just three days later. Furthermore, because rigid airship passenger travel was an exceptionally brief, elite era abruptly halted by the crash, pre-disaster artifacts and photographs from its 1937 flight schedule remain extraordinarily scarce relics of a forgotten mode of global luxury travel.