Andr?e's Arctic balloon expedition, 1897, (1932). Swedish engineer and aeronaut Salomon August Andr?e (1854-1897) perished during a failed attempt to reach the Geographic North Pole by hydrogen balloon. The '?rnen' ('Eagle') crashed onto the ice. Andr?e and his companions Nils Strindberg and Knut Fraenkel were unhurt, but with inadequate clothing and equipment, they did not survive the Arctic winter. From "Die Eroberung Der Luft", (The Conquest of the Air), cigarette card album produced by the Garb?ty cigarette factory, 1932. Eugene and Moritz Garb?ty, 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]