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Show B- WORK ON CAMPAIGN BANNERS BB Twelve Men Employed in Production Bm. of One of These Wonderful BK Objects of "Art." BB Tho services of U men lire ro(tilrod BB to produce one of (ho hig campaign BjJJJ banners. BB Two men prepare the strips on which BB tho lettering la done. Two more look BH after tho lettering of these strips, the BB painting of tin' mimes of dubs or lis BB hochitloiiH onlcrlng the haimeis, t In- BB captions for tho portraits and the of BB lices for which tho nominees are l. BB contend. BB Two m. D Work on the centerpieces, BB geneinlly consisting of an eagle ami a BB sbiebl. One man devotes himself to BB the special portraits, ami Ihe oilier - BB HKseiia'ilo the various paliB, sew tin BB t rips tocatiwr, and give llio fliilaliluu BB touches to the banner. H i The "portrait man" scorns to d B any Other WOri than Ihe main portrait. B Tho rest he calls "tilling In." l'y work- B lug on tiM same face.-; day after day B this artist becomes so skillful that he B run paint tho portrait of u candidate B (to use the words of one painter) "In H tho dark" nnd do It as true to life ns B Ihe standard of the campaign hunner BB Industry rciUlres. |