2-702-169 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Zeppelin LZ 1, 1900, (1932). The first truly successful experimental rigid airship, produced by German general and aircraft manufacturer Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917) The LZ 1 was first flown from a floating hangar on Lake Constance, near Friedrichshafen in southern Germany on 2 July 1900. Capacity: 11300 cubic metres; length: 128 metres, with Daimler engines. 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]