2-702-155 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

La Ville de Paris airship, 1908, (1932). French dirigible constructed in 1906 for Henry Deutsch de la Meurthe by Édouard Surcouf. In 1908 it made a flight of 9 hours and 25 minutes. 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]