2-702-086 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Amundsen's Dornier Do J Wal in polar ice, 1925, (1932). Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) used two Dornier seaplanes in his unsuccessful attempt to reach the North Pole in 1925. 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]