Billboard Painters Frame Color:Black countless members of Congress and

countless members of Congress and heads of state

two years after the Empire State Building opened and adopted the title of World's Tallest Structure

More than a century after the name brontosaurus was reclassified as apatosaurus

Firemen had to chop through the billboard which featured an ad for St

Billboard Painters Frame Color:Black countless members of Congress andBefore 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.