2-702-023 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Raab-Katzenstein RK.9 Grasümcke plane, 1920s, (1932). The Grasmücke ('Hedge-sparrow') was a German two-seater touring and training biplane with a 40 horse power air-cooled Salmson engine. 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]