2-702-160 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Parseval 27, 1917, (1932). PL 27 German airship designed by August von Parseval (1861-1942). PL 27 did not meet increased military requirements, and was therefore not put to military service but instead converted to a passenger airship in 1919. 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]