"Wonderful Century" is a term which aptly describes many advances during the past one hundred years. It is also the title of an intriguing series of fifty cigarette cards issued by the Stephen Mitchell company in 1937. Their "Wonderful Century" takes a phase of life as carried out in that year, and compares it with a similar activity in 1837. The result is very effective indeed, using two contrasting images on each card to demonstrate the immense changes that took place during that period in such diverse fields as aeroplanes, coal-mining, food-preserving, broadcasting, fire-fighting, fashion, architecture and steel-making, as well as those shown in the illustration below, and the texts on the card backs are extremely illuminating. This is history as it happened, awe-inspiring, entertaining and enthralling. It's heart-breaking that no present-day issuer has come up with a 1901 to 2000 equivalent to show us how incredibly things have altered even in the past sixty-odd years since Mitchell's set first saw the light of day.