Sign Painters

This illustrated history of hand-lettered painted signs across America, and the craftspeople who created them, is"a lovely paean to a vanishing art" (TheNew York Times).

There was a time—as recently as the 1980s—when storefronts, murals, banners, barn signs, billboards, and even street signs were all hand-lettered with brush and paint. But, like many skilled trades, the sign industry has been overrun by the techno-fueled promise of quicker and cheaper. The resulting proliferation of compu...