2-701-926 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Messerschmitt M 18 plane, 1920s, (1932). The Messerschmitt M 18 airliner was produced in Germany in the late 1920s by the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (BFW). This model was used to take photographs and measurements at altitude. 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]