Billboard Painters Frame Color:Black Winds of up to 90

Winds of up to 90 miles an hour last week wrecked ships

switching on the lights of the Empire State Building

countless members of Congress and heads of state

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

The iconic structure opened iin 1883 after 13 years of construction

Billboard Painters Frame Color:Black Winds of up to 90Before 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.