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British & American illustrated papers were OBSESSED with the fantasy that France (particularly its beaches) was a land of pleasure & sexual opportunity where the usual rules of respectability didn't apply. Here, women bathers frolic around a floating piano!
—Mirror of Life (1897)
In 1887, the enterprising folks at Virginia Brights Cigarettes launched a series of collectible cards devoted to 'Girl Cyclists'! They're quite something...