Sign Painters of WWII. (original) (raw)
World War II Sign Painters
in Chicago
1943
Photo courtesy James A. Wilson Jr
Location
Chicago 7th and Walbash 1943
Sign Painters
William Gemein
L.Y. Tipton
James Wilson
Fred Konalinka
P.G. Hisey
Charles Oberhart
Sign Painters During World War II
My father James Wilson and the rest of these sign painters "donated" their services for the war effort. My father was a sign painter for many years 1919 - 1968. Walls Bulletin Boards Trucks. He told me he painted a wall in the Chicago stock yards advertising Armour meats, the "A' in Armour was sixty feet high. It was hand drawn or layed out as he would say. - James A. Wilson Jr , April 19, 2005
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