Collectible cigarette card, Cycling series, 1939

Collectible tobacco or cigarette card, 'Cycling' series, published in 1939 by John Player and Sons Cigarettes, depicting the 100 year history of the bicycle, here featuring a modern female biker of the 1930s, an athletic independent woman in a skort or culottes or divided skirt or the earliest bike shorts denoting a modern woman (Photo by Nextrecord Archives / Getty Images).