Old Faithful Yellowstone WPA Wood Wall Plaque by America Is Beautiful®

Key Features

This vintage wall sign design from America Is Beautiful® is a historically accurate adaptation of the original 1938 Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Yellowstone National Park WPA poster.

• Bring the wilderness into your home with this historically accurate adaptation of the original 1938 Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Yellowstone National Park WPA poster!
• Hot-branded on back in our shop with a real hot branding iron - the maker’s mark that will prove it up on Antiques Roadshow, Christie’s or Sotheby’s in 100 years!
• Handmade for you in our workshop in America -- a family treasure and heirloom.
• Real birch wood with art printed directly on it and hand-painted edges.
• Wood struts stand your plaque off the wall about ½” for nice depth and effect.
• An American owned family business and brand!
• 8 ½” wide and 11” tall. About ½” thick

This Design

This vintage Old Faithful Erupting at Yellowstone National Park plaque is a historically accurate adaptation of the original c1938 Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Yellowstone National Park WPA poster. One of the places the America the Beautiful song is about! This wood wall sign design features sustainable real birch wood and American timber with the art printed directly on it. Hand-painted edges. The main body of the tall sign is true to the Robin’s egg blue original color used in the historic poster. The ¼” thick edges of the plaque are hand painted brown matching the border. The bold block lettering used in the original screen-printed posters appears across the base of the image and reads “YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE,” and in the center of the area appears the official Seal from that time with a buffalo and eagle. Filling the face of the tall sign is Old Faithful erupting in all its glory and white high altitude wispy cirrus clouds streaking the sky above the tree line. “AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL” appears at the top in the blue and tan colors used elsewhere in the sign. Two wood struts run across the back to stand the wall décor plaque off the wall about ½” for nice depth and effect. The sign’s back is hot-branded rear by hand with a real hot branding iron to prove it is made-in-America and hand-made.

The Backstory

Once upon a time Janet and I were fortunate enough to find ourselves standing all alone before Old Faithful in the dead of winter at 20 degrees below zero when it erupted. Silence all around, the hiss of the steam, growing into a rush, and then to the roar of the steam. My thoughts wandered to whether once upon another time one of North America's many dinosaurs or woolly mammoths had stood where we stood and watched, linking us back and forth through time.

The Brand

Created by a family of active, positive imagineers, the America The Beautiful^® brand is a fun way to show love of country, positive vibes, adventure, freedom, and an optimistic lifestyle from sea to shining sea. It’s awesome here! Designed, printed, and shipped to you from within America by a family-owned American company.

The registered trademarks “America The Beautiful” and “America Is Beautiful” are used by Name Brands, Inc. under license from D-Generation, Inc.

Trail Blazes

We Americans use a lot of words and phrases to describe things. As a noun, this one is a sign, wood wall sign, wall plaque, wall décor, or just home décor. Its genre is handmade, vintage, wilderness, the mountains, backcountry, and outdoor adventure. american-made, country living, made in the USA, aka made in America. Its treatment is weathered, distressed and hot-branded. The subject matter is department of the interior, national park service, old faithful erupting at yellowstone national park poster, wpa, the work progress administration, and hiking, camping and adventuring in the great outdoors. It is love of country and the great outdoors all over. We hope these things will help you find this wonderful product!