Billboard Painters vertical Did you see a photograph

Did you see a photograph in the newspaper of somebody you know

Skokloster Castle

Images credited to wire services

Fifth Avenue and Broadway

but London is shrouded in fog from a devastating stretch of brutal winter weather

Billboard Painters vertical Did you see a photographBefore 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.