An elaborate painted sign -- of four completed in three days in 2015 by "lettermen," as artistic sign painters call themselves, who met for a convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, and stopped by the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood to see the museum and demonstrate their trade. This one depicts a sign painter in action using "distressed" techniques in which the painter creates the illusion of an old and faded sign, but all at once from scratch on a brand new sign. Photo by Carol Highsmith.