Posting Paper #1 (From Dave Price)

To illustrate the various sizes of posting paper, imagine that on a 24-sheet board I have posted a 16-sheet of the RBBB "Beauties and Beasts" at left and next to it an 8-sheet of Dailey Bros mandrill baboon (16 + 8 = 24). Then over the 16-sheet I have posted an RBBB 9-sheet leaping tiger and over that an Al G Barnes 6-sheet hippo bill. Across the top of the 9-sheet tiger is a 3-sheet streamer reading "Clyde Beatty in Person." At other places where I could fit them, are a Russell Bros 2-Sheet lion and a Clyde Beatty 3-sheet showing Beatty in his act. The word "streamer" is often used incorrectly. A streamer usually consists of just some wording and is always much longer than it is high. There were some pictorial streamers in the past. There was a famous one of a giant snake in which the billposter used one head and one tail and as many middles as needed to go across the top of the daub. In my day billers usually referred to larger posters by their size: 3-sheets, 8-sheets etc. I never heard the term "multi-sheet" used on the advance; I believe that term originated with late Twentieth-Century circus fans. If we had to refer to the entire category we would just say, "posting paper."