2-702-079 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Heinkel HD 24 W Tsingtau seaplane, 1920s, (1932). Heinkel HD 24 bought by German explorer Gunther Plüschow who named it Tsingtau and took it on an expedition to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, in 1927-1928. 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]