Vintage WWII Trailer Print - WAC Nurses With Vintage Ambulance Trailer Stateside - Curtiss Aerocar Style 5th Wheel Rig - Wood - Masonite

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Treasures from THE CLASSIC TRAILER & MOTOR HOME COLLECTION at Lost Highways Archive & Research Library. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review.

Print size 24 x 10, and consciously formatted to work with a 24 x 10 frame, or custom framed as you see fit.


If you have a moment, take a peek at the second photo posted here. That shows where we started.  

I bought this photo at an old time flea market, set in a wooded glen, a place I've been going on rare occasions for damn near 50 years. I like being stopped in my tracks, and this photo in a box of miscellaneous pictures did just that. I held it and looked into it for a long time, but I'd sawunderstood where I was going with it immediately. The composition we ended up with is what the photographer had in mind when he or she posed the gals originally. To the ambulance squad women on the far left who were ultimately cropped from the final layout here in our studio, I apologize,

That said, what we have is a real moment now rewrapped and opened up like a special gift. You are there.

This is a moment showing all of the folks herein filled with quiet purpose and yet... there is some excitement not yet tempered by the hard reality of war and buoyed by the natural energy of youth. We are at the very beginning of WWII, and these gals have been training stateside as Civil Defense nurses, ultimately for deployment in any direction around the globe. It will be a rough road. All of those elements, as well as the vintage vehicles, makes this one of my favorite and certainly one of the most quietly compelling images in our collection.

• Handmade item
• Materials: Art stock enhanced matte paper, archival ink
• Made to order
• Only ships within United States.

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A NOTE ON OUR PROCESS, OUR CHOICES AND THE QUALITY OF THE GRAPHIC CRAFTSMANSHIP THAT GOES INTO OUR PRINTS.

Every print we deem exciting enough to present to the public via our Etsy store or available here at our studio has gone through a number of steps. The first of those is always discovering and falling in love with an obscure image, always an original that we can hold in our hands. That image is speaking to us, sometime screaming “Don’t leave me here. See what I am, what I was, what I can be, what I SHOULD be!”

There is a real sense of excitement involved, and a great many smiles and knowing grins when we make that deal and bring that ancient print, that battered photo, that scrap of ephemera that contains some scrap of genius from an unknown commercial artist home with us, knowing already how we mean to approach its restoration.

There is the heady promise of a further hunt just as real as what drags a weekend fisherman out of bed at 3AM to work a favorite brook as we start our research, looking for that great backstory, and both ready and willing to tumble down as many rabbit holes as are revealed to us to get that story.

Then there is a meticulous digital restoration that is as often as much fun as riding a vintage Moto Guzzi on a winding coastal road. I don’t care if that sounds crazy, it really is like jumping in the saddle! So many choices, so many chances to take to subtly or spectacularly give new life to otherwise permanently obscure images.

This dedication and the ongoing rush of joy in the accomplishment of it, and the opportunity to share the results in our studio and here on Etsy, is the fire of passion that keeps these engines roaring. We make every effort to ensure our customers are not just satisfied but thrilled, and we happily stand 100% behind our work.