2-701-839 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Junkers W 33w seaplane, 1920s, (1932). German single-engine transport aircraft which made aviation history for the first east-west non-stop heavier-than-air crossing of the Atlantic. From "Die Eroberung Der Luft", (The Conquest of the Air), cigarette card album produced by the Garbáty cigarette factory, 1932. Eugene and Moritz Garbáty, who were Jewish, were driven out of business by the Nazis in the late 1930s, and forced to sell their factory which lay empty for over 70 years. [Garbaty Cigarettenfabrik, Berlin-Pankow, 1932]