Captain Frank Hawks' Travel Air Type R Mystery Ship, 1932. Creator: Unknown.

Captain Frank Hawks' Travel Air Type R Mystery Ship, 1932. Creator: Unknown.

2-702-090 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Captain Frank Hawks' Travel Air Type R Mystery Ship, 1932. Frank Monroe Hawks (1897-1938) was a pilot in the United States Army Air Service during World War I and was known during the 1920s and 1930s as a record breaking aviator, using a series of Texaco-sponsored aircraft, setting 214 point-to-point records in the United States and Europe. On 12 May 1931 he flew the Texaco 13 from London to Berlin in a record time of 2hrs and 57 mins. 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]


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People Information

Creator
  1. Unknown, attributed to: :
People Related
  1. Josef Garbáty: German, Belarusian: Tobacco manufacturer
  2. Eugene Garbáty: German: Tobocco manufacturer, art collector
  3. Moritz Garbáty: German: tobacco manufacturer
  4. Frank Hawks: American: Pilot

Picture Type
  1. Cigarette card

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Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 5948x3783
File Size : 65,922kb


Aliases

  1. 0580062353
  1. 2-702-090
  1. 2702090

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