Billboard Painters vertical Fifth Avenue and Broadway

Fifth Avenue and Broadway

He also covered the Lindbergh kidnapping trial

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

Visible on the left are the Gaiety Theatre and an advertisement for Casperfield Cleveland Diamonds & Watches

Dempsey told The Times

Billboard Painters vertical Fifth Avenue and BroadwayBefore 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.