1942 Ford car advertisement with red sedan – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: 1942 Ford car advertisement with red sedan, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
1942 Ford car advertisement with red sedan
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A red Ford sedan takes center stage in this 1942 advertisement, a detail that sets it apart from the many automobile ads of its era that leaned on chrome grilles or rolling highways. Wartime production was winding down for civilian cars in 1942, as American factories shifted toward tanks, aircraft and trucks after the country entered the Second World War. Ads like this one often showed a car as a symbol of postwar optimism or of the freedom of the open road, even as buyers faced rationing and few new models were available. The piece is worth a closer look for its design and the way it marketed a product that many Americans could not yet buy.
| Original scan | 707 × 901 px |
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| Reference | 890 |
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