2-701-857 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Messerschmitt M 23c plane, 1920s, (1932). German plane with 100 horse power air-cooled Argus As 8 engine, and wings that could be folded for transport or storage. 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]