World War II - V for Victory photo - Look familiar?

[mart]

OK, I have looked everywhere and can not find this photo or reference to it anywhere !! 

[KC]

Maybe just because the bird is in a "V" configuration!!!

We have a good friend that he LIVED as a kid in High School on Midway Island - Naval Air Station (total of 20 kids in the school).  When planes would come in to land they would all have to run out and scare the albatross away from the runway!  This is the "unofficial" flag of Midway Island bearing an albatross.


This is what the albatross look like at hatching time on the island


Midway is still maintained by the US Govt but is not a wildlife refuge and the naval station was decommissioned in 1978.

[mart]

That is why the seagull was used KC !! Its written at the bottom,left,, V for Victory, dot dot dot dash !!  Copyright HVR on rt side !!  What I can`t figure is why I can`t find a reference anywhere to this photo having been made !! It was obviously sold somewhere !!  It looks like a sepia or albumin print !!  Drives me nuts when I can`t find something that I know is out there somewhere !!

[Ipcress]

I'm disappointed some of you haven't found the seagull which was photographed.


 

[greenacres]

  good one Ipcress!

[Rauville]

That is why the seagull was used KC !! Its written at the bottom,left,, V for Victory, dot dot dot dash !!  Copyright HVR on rt side !!  What I can`t figure is why I can`t find a reference anywhere to this photo having been made !! It was obviously sold somewhere !!  It looks like a sepia or albumin print !!  Drives me nuts when I can`t find something that I know is out there somewhere !!

Heck...I think there are still folks around here that winter down in South Texas at the Hidden Valley Ranch (HVR).

[mart]

   Yeah Rauville !! We in the south all know about that one !! The one in the bottle and little pouch that is ,, !!

Ipcress if you found it,, please enlighten me !!

[greenacres]

mart, Ipcress is teasing!

[mart]

mart, Ipcress is teasing!

Maybe,, but after days of looking,, I was not !!  I want to know !!

[KC]

Aren't we having fun on here!!    I think they are envious of us living in Texas Mart!  LOLOL

Still looking!

[Ipcress]

Seen things like this in the UK though. Masses of different companies in the mid 20th century with periodicals like Picture Post, owned by the Hulton Press Library which was then acquired by Getty Images to form part of their immense database of photographs.

I'd remove it from the frame to inspect it.

[bigwull]

That is why the seagull was used KC !! Its written at the bottom,left,, V for Victory, dot dot dot dash !!  Copyright HVR on rt side !!  What I can`t figure is why I can`t find a reference anywhere to this photo having been made !! It was obviously sold somewhere !!  It looks like a sepia or albumin print !!  Drives me nuts when I can`t find something that I know is out there somewhere !!

What Seagull??......an Albatross....is NOT.....a seagull.....it is like you Mart....and the rest of the girls on here....a totally different species.....

[mart]

Ha !!  Better watch it Wullie !!

[bigwull]

Aren't we being fun on her!!    I think they are envious of us living in Texas Mart!  LOLOL

Still looking!

envious....Ha,....maybe ..of your long hot summers....and your wide open spaces,....and civilization....for some.....but with no Broadband...and a mail coach once every 4/5 days..for others.....i think i,ll just keep my big arse where it is.....

[KC]

You crack me up.  Don't forget the wild west, the tumbleweeds and bank robbers.  Oops...actually around us they have had a couple of those within the past few weeks - still haven't caught the robbers!  :O