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" viewed by an estimated 73 million Americans

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

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

Billboard Painters Frame Color:Black The aluminum tray could beBefore 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.