Billboard Painters Frame Color:Black Despite the avowed object of

Despite the avowed object of the meeting - to get money from the audience and others - there was an atmosphere of good humor and light-heartedness

With his own public relations and marketing concern

one of three men from a local Life-Saving Station to help out with the test

countless members of Congress and heads of state

switching on the lights of the Empire State Building

Billboard Painters Frame Color:Black Despite the avowed object ofBefore billboards were produced on vinyl panels and unrolled at their intended sites, they were an art form created on the spot by sign painters. Posters like this one for the movie "Silver Streak" were created as small works of art, then taken to the site, where they were divided into small squares matching a larger grid. Painters reproduced the work a square at a time.