2-702-166 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Astra Adjutant Reau airship, 1911, (1932). In September 1911, French engineer Édouard Surcouf piloted the Adjutant Reau (Astra XI) on a record-breaking non-stop round flight of 850 kilometres, starting and ending in Paris. 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]