2-701-882 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Arnold Böcklin's flying machine, 1885, (1932). The Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901) drew up plans for a flying machine without an engine. 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]