Frances Gifford, star of the Republic Pictures early-Forties serial Jungle Girl, rides home after some grocery shopping. The photo is from 1942, when the California native had the female lead in Paramount’s post-Civil War western, American Empire.

Here’s the verso: “OUTDOOR GIRL is Frances Gifford, right in line with the times by doing her shopping on a bike in the morning. Afternoons find her before the Paramount cameras in her leading lady role in ‘American Empire,’ in which she plays opposite Preston Foster.”