2-702-100 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Marga von Etzdorf with her plane, 1932. German aircraft pilot Margarete von Etzdorf (1907-1933) was the first woman to fly an aircraft professionally, and the first woman to fly solo across Siberia, from Germany to Tokyo, Japan. She was also the first foreigner to enter Japan at Haneda Airport. 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]