88 years ago today, it rained fire from the sky over the Shore. As the largest airship ever built, the LZ-129 − better known as the Hindenburg − tried to dock in Lakehurst after a trans ...

Description (Brief) Gelatin silver photograph by Murray Becker, image of the Hindenburg airship in flames on the ground; unmounted. Description Murray Becker was one of the key photographers of the ...

Object Details maker Becker, Murray L. Description (Brief) Gelatin silver photograph; image of Hindenburg airship in flames, partially on ground. Description Murray Becker was one of the key ...

The Akron plunged into a violent storm off New Jersey in April 1933, killing 73 of 76 aboard—far more than the infamous ...

The Hindenburg crash effectively brought about the end of the commercial airship industry. Werner G. Doehner, the disaster’s last survivor, died in 2019, at age 90.