2-702-156 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Goodyear 'Pilgrim' airship, 1925, (1932). American airship with 60 horse power Wright engine, capacity: 1490 cubic metres; length: 32 metres; speed: 72 kilometres per hour. On its first flight on 3 June 1925, it was inflated with hydrogen, and on 17 July with helium. 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]