2-702-161 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Siemens-Schuckert airship, 1911, (1932). 500 horse power airship built by German firm Siemens-Schuckert, which reached a speed of 72 kilometers per hour. Length: 118 metres, with 4 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]