Billboard Painters vertical to the Prayer Pilgrimage for

to the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on May 17

Fifth Avenue and Broadway

saved ships

The fight took place at Tex Rickard's stadium in Jersey City

Images credited to wire services

Billboard Painters vertical to the Prayer Pilgrimage forBefore 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.