2-702-087 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

First flight of the Junkers Ju 49 plane, 2 October 1931, (1932). The German Ju 49 aircraft was designed to investigate high-altitude flight and the techniques of cabin pressurisation. 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]