2-701-883 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Renard and Krebs' airship, 1884, (1932). The electric-powered aerostat airship 'La France', launched by Charles Renard and Arthur Constantin Krebs on 9 August 1884, completed a flight that covered 8 km (5.0 mi) in 23 minutes. 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]