2-701-841 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Heinkel He 58 seaplane, 1920s, (1932). The He 58 was a pontoon-equipped mail plane built in Germany in 1929, designed to be launched by catapult from a liner at sea. 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]