2-702-168 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Norge N-1 airship, 1923, (1932). Semi-rigid Italian airship that carried out the first verified trip of any kind to the North Pole. It was also the first aircraft to fly over the polar ice cap between Europe and America. Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) made a successful flight over the North Pole aboard the 'Norge' on 11-14 May 1926. 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]