Barns and watering troughs served as billboards in the 1880s, proof that advertising was as much a part of life in those days as railroading and road building.Advertising crews traveled stage roads in wagons and on horseback, paid by Levi Strauss to paint barns and watering troughs with ads for Levi Strauss overalls and Leake’s work gloves.They carried paint and paraphernalia to last them from one railroad station to the next between Dunsmuir, Calif., and Ashland, Ore. [...]
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