Billboard Project Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Leigh, Douglas
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content: Douglas Leigh Papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Box 1, 6, 14-25, BV 33; 5.0 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1929-1997
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.leigdoug, Series 10
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: This series is arranged chronologically within each project, with the exception of 10.2: General Photographs, which has been arranged according to subject matter, and 10.5: Individual Billboard Product Files, which has been arranged alphabetically. The series is divided into 5 subseries:

10.1: General Notes, 1934-1997

10.2: General Photographs, 1929-1996

10.3: Leigh-EPOK Electric Display Board, 1966-1993

10.4: Billboard Scrapbooks for Miscellaneous Products, 1933-1977

10.5: Individual Billboard Product Files, 1936-1980
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Billboard project files are on reels 5843-5845.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series consists primarily of 29 scrapbooks and photographs documenting the development of billboard advertising projects, including Leigh's inventions of the Leigh-EPOK Electric Display Board and the Tri-Vision Billboard. Also found are notes, letters, interview transcripts, clippings, miscellaneous printed material, and individual product files. Scrapbooks have been consecutively numbered within this series. Scrapbooks containing material concerning multiple products appear before those concerning individual products. Leigh referred to his billboards as "Spectaculars" because they often were illuminated or displayed mechanized animation.