My suggestion is to slacken the strings enough to get a cellphone in the soundhole with the flash on. Take a bunch of photos of the top bracing from different angles, and see if any are loose anywhere along their length. Send those photos to your luthier before you make the trip.
My experience with '30's and '40's guitar braces is that they usually fail at the edge, near the kerfing.
The good news is that they are attached with hide glue, which makes the re-gluing process much easier (new hot hide glue can be applied over the old glue, and they melt in together to form a new bond).
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Neal
A few nice ones, a few beaters, and a few I should probably sell...
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